Kevin Hutchinson

there are 2 roads to liberty: 1) political reform 2) tech I have zero faith in the former, and absolute faith in the latter.

The real story is worse. November 2025: Amazon mandates Kiro as their only AI coding tool. Sets an 80% weekly usage target. 1,500 engineers protest internally, saying Claude Code outperforms it. Leadership pushes through anyway. December: Kiro autonomously deletes a production AWS environment. 13-hour outage. Amazon's response: "user error, not AI autonomy." March 5: Amazon[.]com goes down for 6 hours. Checkout, pricing, accounts — all gone. Now the same SVP who co-signed the Kiro mandate is running an emergency meeting about "high blast radius" incidents from "Gen-AI assisted changes." The agent inherited a senior engineer's permissions and acted like one — except it doesn't hesitate. 1,500 engineers said the tool wasn't ready. Leadership made adoption a KPI. Amazon told Wall Street it's spending $200B on AI this year. They can't walk it back. This isn't an AI failure. It's what happens when adoption becomes a corporate OKR before the review process catches up. The tools work. The org chart didn't.

@nachunja 10-Q track record says they're in-the-money.

$XYZ This mf'er betting $2.2M that XYZ stays below $80 post earnings

@Shpigford aha! this is how i'll get to 1000 users!! ;-)

just launched: proxyuser.com proxyuser is a synthetic user with a real browser testing out your core app functionality all day long so you sleep better at night. fully agentic signup! was bonkers to get working but it's such a nice way to use this type of product.

2000: Use a travel agent 2020: Use Expedia 2027: Use a travel "agent"

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@Shpigford Egatobas Media ? You keep the name, just reverse it. (Like the SQLite people did with their filename to avoid support calls)

my holding company legal entity has been "Sabotage Media LLC" for nearly 20 years. but in the past ~6 months i've started getting complaints almost weekly of people saying that seeing that in legal docs, or app store listing names made them second guess/worry. what's the play?

@Shpigford you have any success with local models? I'm enjoying Gemma4:26b

absolutely livid at how good hermes is (with gpt 5.5, no less!)

@Shpigford I'm at 70 right now... how's your count?

hey chat i bought another domain today

Finally, a pickup that actually picks stuff up.

@Alex_Oloyede2 Elon has decided to take a side. Not a smart move.

🇺🇦 An interesting Ukrainian drone brought down by Electronic Warfare. The UAV carrying two FPV drones and fitted with a Starlink terminal for extended range.

@Jessethefree Cypherpunks will save the world.

Anarcho-Capitalism is the future. All of the old world theories have had their time.

@Rainmaker1973 both

Is the drone stationary, or is it moving at 50 km/h? [📹 Jeremy Lynch]

I’m in love with this sentence: “Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”

this was my on-ramp to computers...

Tweet of the day:

Trump just sent a letter to Congress saying the war in Iran is “terminated” because today marks 60 days and in order for the President to have the authority to continue, the Constitution requires a vote from Congress. But the war is not really terminated. Trump is just restarting the clock to avoid a vote from Congress that may limit his power to wage a war on Iran, and the war is absolutely not over just because there has been a ceasefire. Also, Trump is about to start military actions again very soon. It never ended. This is unconstitutional and Congress should reclaim it’s constitutional authority.

So April was the month of hobbling Claude. May seems to be the month to hobble Cursor* *anyone else noticed yet?

Voting is the adult version of writing a letter to Santa Claus.

@nikitabier video playback on @X has FUBAR'ed audio. It's not sync'd. It plays on top of itself. I pay you hundreds of pounds for this thing. Fix it. (please?)