Nate Of All Trades

Going camping tonight

I did a spring reorganization of the girls’ room yesterday including putting all of Little Tree’s birds of prey on a “perch.” She’s gathered quite the collection and can tell you all about each species. Now let’s just hope they make it back to the perch after play.

I've talked to a lot of people working in AI with agents, Claude Code, etc One thing I keep hearing that nobody has written about is that many builders have stopped going to the gym The reason is always the same: the perceived opportunity cost of stepping away from their projects feels too high I've noticed it in myself too It's hard to break away when we're all building such cool stuff But I'm typing this from the gym right now And I'll tell you that it feels great You should go exercise if you haven't lately You'll have better energy and better focus Less prompting and more lifting!!

The reason why Jesus, Herod, Pilate, the Pharisees, the Roman soldiers, and the crowd could all understand each other with no translators is because they weren’t speaking Hebrew, Aramaic, or Latin; they were all speaking Koine Greek. That’s why the New Testament is in Greek. That’s why Jesus and the Apostles used and quoted from the Greek Septuagint to bring the gospel to the nations.

Amazon had four Sev-1 outages (their highest severity level) in a single week. Internal memos say AI-assisted code changes were a contributing factor. The timeline here is wild. In October 2025, Amazon laid off 14,000 corporate employees. In January 2026, another 16,000. That’s about 30,000 people in five months, roughly 10% of the corporate workforce. CEO Andy Jassy said the cuts were about culture, not AI. During those same months, Amazon set a target: 80% of developers using AI coding tools at least once a week. They tracked adoption closely and blocked rival tools like OpenAI’s Codex. Even so, 30% of developers still hadn’t touched Amazon’s in-house tool Kiro by January. In December 2025, Kiro caused a 13-hour AWS outage. The AI tool had production-level permissions and decided the best fix for a bug was to delete and recreate an entire live environment. A second incident involved Amazon Q Developer, another AI tool. Amazon blamed both on “user error, not AI.” But quietly added mandatory peer review for all production access afterward. Then March 5: Amazon’s retail site went down for about six hours. Over 22,000 users reported checkout failures, missing prices, and app crashes. Amazon called it a “software code deployment” error. Five days later, SVP Dave Treadwell made the normally optional weekly engineering meeting mandatory. His memo acknowledged “GenAI tools supplementing or accelerating production change instructions, leading to unsafe practices.” These problems trace back to Q3 2025. Amazon’s own assessment: their GenAI safeguards “are not yet fully established.” The new rule: junior and mid-level engineers now need senior sign-off on any AI-assisted production changes. Treadwell also announced “controlled friction” for the most critical parts of the retail experience. For context, Google’s 2025 DORA report found 90% of developers use AI for coding but only 24% trust it “a lot.” An Uplevel study of 800 developers found Copilot users introduced 41% more bugs with no improvement in output. Amazon is finding out what those numbers look like at the scale of a $500 Billion revenue company, with 30,000 fewer people on staff to catch the mistakes.

we should lowkey start shaming people who can't read analog clocks

We got a new pup a month ago and have heard the term socialization a ton in that context: Socialization for dogs is the process of exposing them to a wide variety of people, animals, environments, and situations in a positive and controlled way, typically during their critical developmental period (roughly 3 to 16 weeks of age), to help them become well-adjusted, confident, and comfortable in different settings. It involves introducing them to new stimuli—like sounds, sights, textures, other dogs, and humans of all ages—while ensuring these experiences are positive to prevent fear or aggression later in life. Proper socialization helps dogs develop good behavior, adaptability, and emotional stability in diverse circumstances.

Homeschooling should be illegal. “But I teach my kids better than the state!” Doesn’t matter, the primary purpose of elementary/middle school isn’t to teach it’s to socialize your kid. You can’t do that alone. And this isn’t even mentioning how it can be used to abuse kids

It is warm and sunny.