Profile avatar
lawrencejones.dev
Engineer at https://incident.io/. Previously @GoCardless | Writes at http://blog.lawrencejones.dev | @lawrjones on Twitter
250 posts 571 followers 351 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 12 Comments 38

How is this a thing

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I have a package that’s been stuck in customs for a week. Is there anything more irritating than a fedex tracker giving you zero info and saying “ETA Tuesday 11th 11am” when it’s now the next week 😂

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Crazy to me that people can say this when ChatGPT/Claude/etc have hundreds of millions of daily active users. I have not once ever had a use for a blockchain payment. All my colleagues use AI daily. What is making people so resistant to seeing this?

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Was playing with some CI build time improvements yesterday and booting big old machines is something I will always enjoy. 96 cores go brrrrrr

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The average AI product experience is bad right now, and it’s because teams haven’t figured it out how to build with these tools yet. Building a prototype is 10% of the effort. The rest of the journey is uncharted waters and can be a real struggle. blog.lawrencejones.dev/ai-mvp/

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Gotten into the habit of getting AI to check my code piece-by-piece as I build systems. Doesn't replace a human or a review, but it frequently catches issues I'd otherwise miss or only find once I'd deployed. Can't recommend this enough!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This was a fun chat about how we're building an AI incident responder, which: - Checks your Grafana dashboards - Looks at recent PRs - Finds past incidents like this one And drops a message just like this one I got this morning when I broke our evals 😂

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

It’s really important to remember when anyone speaks about DOGE that this is the person leading it. Just keep that in mind when the next tech bro says how ‘excited’ they are about the mission. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

We've got a new game at work "Cold Case Mysteries" where people submit a picture of their fridge and then we all guess who it is. I thought this would be funny but did not anticipate a character assassination.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Kinda weird to see Zuck aping the behavior that lost Elon tens of millions of Twitter users. Makes me wonder what and how strong the incentive has to be for him to do something so actively against the top-line business interest.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Keep making eye contact with this weirdo across my desk and it’s kinda freaking me out

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

I just remembered a fun SRE interview we used to run where we’d break a VM in several ways and share an ssh session with the candidate to pair on fixing it. Lots of how we’d break the machine are no longer relevant today. Crazy how fast this stuff moves on.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments