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AI wrote the code. Amazon lost 6 million orders. Now they're hiring senior engineers to babysit the AI. March 2026. Amazon's internal AI assistant, Amazon Q, has been proudly marketed as a tool that makes developers "2-3x more productive". Then this happened: March 2: Customers saw incorrect delivery dates. Result…

Everyone's talking about AI. But when someone asks "what actually is it?", most people go quiet. Is it the same as machine learning? Are neural networks and AI the same thing? What about ChatGPT - is that "real" AI? The terminology is confusing. And that confusion makes it hard to have informed conversations abou…

Why zebras don't stress out, but we do. A zebra gets chased by a lion. Heart racing. Full sprint. Escapes. Five minutes later? Calmly eating grass. No therapy. No ruminating about the chase. Just... back to normal. Humans? We're different. We sit in meetings thinking about deadlines. We lie in bed replaying conv…

Everyone's talking about AI. But when someone asks "what actually is it?", most people go quiet. Is it the same as machine learning? Are neural networks and AI the same thing? What about ChatGPT - is that "real" AI? The terminology is confusing. And that confusion makes it hard to have informed conversations abou…

Why zebras don't stress out, but we do. A zebra gets chased by a lion. Heart racing. Full sprint. Escapes. Five minutes later? Calmly eating grass. No therapy. No ruminating about the chase. Just... back to normal. Humans? We're different. We sit in meetings thinking about deadlines. We lie in bed replaying conv…

Last week, I posted a scenario: Your brain has 50 tabs open, and none of them will close. Follow-ups. Check-ins. Small things that pile up. The mental load of management is crushing you. The results: → 60% said: "Build a system, track it all" → 30% said: "Let small stuff go, prioritize" → 10% said: "Push ownership…