Thought Hatchery LLC

About

whoami Hi, I am Drew De Ponte. Thought Hatchery, LLC is my company. It is where I independently design and develop the software products that I wish existed in the world.

Approach

How does it differ from other companies?

I am very particular in how I design and develop software products. This is because I am largely saddened by the current state of the software world, and the lack of quality & care the majority of companies put into their products. So, I use this as a space where I can build software products that truly align with my values. Focusing on things like:

• utility
• craftsmanship
• cross-platform
• performance
• stability
• ease-of-use
• maintainable

Products

• Product Pullwalla Your unified pull request manager. Track, review, and approve pull requests from GitHub and Bitbucket in one native app. macOS · iOS · iPadOS pullwalla.com ↗
• Open source · MIT Git Patch Stack The right way to use git. A command-line tool and workflow for managing a stack of small, reviewable patches instead of feature branches. CLI · GitHub · GitLab · Bitbucket git-ps.sh ↗

On AI

What is my stance on AI (LLMs)?

At the time of writing, I am not opposed to LLMs and think that they are a powerful and useful tool. However, they are not the magic bullet that the big AI companies' marketing claims them to be.

There are still significant gaps in what they produce. In areas like stability, utility, craftsmanship, maintainability, etc.

So, as of now they still need to be consistently guided by a human with taste and that taste must transcend more than just the user experience. The values making up taste need to be present throughout all the layers of the software from the lower level layers of the computer, up through the code, and out through the user experience.

This may change in the future as the AI labs continue focusing on trying to close the gap.