amil

Writer. Hurricane. I have a monthly column called "The Hard Part" @TheCut Words in: NYT, Guardian, Washington Post, TODAY, etc Email: [email protected]

[amil @amil]

I can finally share the cover and pre-order for my book, “Life After Ambition” - it’s a stunning design by Madeline Donahue whose work perfectly captures the joy, beauty and chaos of motherhood. Order your copy now! https://t.co/Sn2E1wgD3K

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs. https://t.co/1VDp9cAqTw

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[New York Magazine @NYMag]

When writer Amil Niazi was struggling to find a job in her early 20s, she truly believed that things would work themselves out. Now, as she scours job listings in her 30s, she writes: “I’m scared for the future in a way I have never really been.”

For every complaint Niazi has heard from people in their 30s and 40s across industries and caregiving responsibilities, the resentment is the same: “We aren’t supposed to *still* be struggling, to still be wondering if we’ll have our job tomorrow or if we’ll find a job that pays the bills at all. We aren’t supposed to be begging anyone in charge to tell us the plan for when we’re all allegedly going to be replaced by AI.”

Niazi writes about how midlife millennials are still spinning in circles after already having to grapple with the precarity of the early aughts — from 9/11 to the 2008 financial crash — and how they can keep going anyway: https://t.co/XCv9msbN4t

[amil @amil]

These Meta layoffs are brutal, everything feels so bleak right now and if you’re feeling hopeless, you’re not alone! For @thecut I wrote about how millennials are struggling to cope
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[Richie Assaly @rdassaly]

Speaking of The New York Times, the paper’s Canada bureau chief recently used an AI tool to summarize Pierre Poilievre’s “views about Canadian politics” and then quoted a hallucinated quote in the paper.

(h/t Michelle Cyca on Bluesky)

https://t.co/9ZUDPHoZzV

[Richie Assaly @rdassaly]

On April 4, TPS entered the lobby of Comedy Bar moments before the start of a fundraising event for Gaza.

That same night, cops entered a theatre at TIFF Lightbox midway through a screening of 'Palestine 36.'

Dug into this growing trend for @TheGrindTO.
https://t.co/a2M6JY1FUS

[Daniel Bromfield @bromf3]

This is what MJ Lenderman songs are about

[amil @amil]

My original anti-capitalist queen: Parker in Party Girl

[joanie @laracroftbarbie]

Everyone! I will be in conversation with @amil April 9 at @paradiseonbloor about her incredible new book 'Life After Ambition' and our favorite movie — 'Party Girl'! Huge shoutout to @mubicanada for putting us divas in conversation 🍸💋

Get tickets now! https://t.co/WkSeD0ggqR

[amil @amil]

Now that’s how you give a speech!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Amazon mandated 80% weekly adoption of its AI coding tool, tracked it as a corporate OKR, overrode 1,500 engineer objections, and is now holding a mandatory meeting because the tool keeps breaking production systems.

Here’s the timeline. Kiro launched July 2025. Leadership signed an internal memo in November making it the default AI coding tool for all production work and discontinuing third-party alternatives. Engineers who preferred Claude Code needed VP-level approval for an exception. By January, 70% of Amazon engineers had tried Kiro during sprint windows.

Five months after launch, Kiro got operator-level permissions with no mandatory peer review, was asked to fix a minor bug in AWS Cost Explorer, and decided the best approach was to delete and recreate the entire production environment. 13 hours of downtime inside the division that generates 60% of Amazon’s operating profit.

This was the second AI-caused production outage in months. Amazon Q Developer caused the first one. Same pattern both times: engineers let the AI agent resolve issues autonomously without intervention.

Amazon called it “user error, not AI error.” Then they implemented mandatory peer review for production access and required senior sign-off before junior and mid-level engineers can push AI-assisted code. That’s like crashing your car, blaming the road, and then buying better brakes.

The real comedy is the math trap Amazon built for itself. They deployed 21,000 AI agents across Stores and told Wall Street it saved $2 billion with 4.5x developer velocity. Once those numbers hit an earnings call, every future incident has to be “user error” by definition. Admitting the tool caused problems means admitting the $2B number carries risk nobody’s pricing in. So you get a company that simultaneously claims AI isn’t the problem while adding AI-specific guardrails after every outage.

Google’s 2025 DORA report found 90% of software developers use AI for coding. Only 24% trust it “a lot.” Amazon just showed you what that 66-point gap looks like when it hits production.

[Robert Wright @robertwrighter]

Anthropic's Claude helped select hundreds of targets for the opening wave of Iran strikes. There's a good chance that one of them was the elementary school where more than 100 girls died. My latest @NonzeroNews piece. https://t.co/d2uv9HANhS

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

Apocalyptic scenes from Tehran tonight. I’ve never seen something like this.

[Sahar Baloch @Saherb1]

Tehran is being carpet bombed and western media is reporting it like weather forecast. No urgency, no investigations, just white washing destruction of one of the world’s oldest civilizations.

[🌸🌺🌼🌹 @mcarv_s]

i’m seeing sidewalks today i haven’t seen in months

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

@amil @JeyanTVO @carrletta We’re told to keep grinding, to never be satisfied. @JeyanTVO talks with "Life After Ambition" author @amil about choosing “good enough” instead. https://t.co/wzDYxUb5zi

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

"I think the millennial dream went bust a long time ago." — @amil, author of “Life After Ambition: A Good Enough Memoir,” talks with @JeyanTVO about the promise for millennials vs. the reality of trying to become successful, tonight at 8pm | Producer: @carrletta

[CT @cdtwriter]

Your AI use is causing this. AI isn't sustainable on any level.

[amil @amil]

Get in girls, we’re partying at Rachel Comey!!!

[Amber Mac @ambermac]

"Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output." https://t.co/qr4Tqbb5Ig

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. https://t.co/pUJpRC2yoK