# Does Baby Have Hat

DevFeed: [Does Baby Have Hat](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/does-baby-have-hat-40489.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2025/04/01/does-baby-have-hat/>)

Published: 2025-04-01T07:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>)

Tags: [april-cools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/april-cools.md>), [automate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automate.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [innovation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/innovation.md>), [learn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learn.md>)

## AI overview

An April Cools essay uses donated baby hats as a metaphor for software and innovation: useful work begins by talking to people about what they need, rather than pursuing novelty for its own sake. The available text also begins a discussion of automating tasks in non-technology jobs.

## Source excerpt

It's April Cools! Last year I wrote about parenting, in 2023 about friendship bracelets. and in 2022 about cocktails. This year it's a bit of a meandering stroll through some ideas around mutual aid and self-reliance. Maternity wards If you walk around the maternity ward at Kaiser Permanente's Sunnyside medical center outside of Portland, Oregon, you might notice the same two things I did. The first was how many signs were posted on the hallways describing the maternity team's KRs and displaying charts showing that they are meeting them.