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Engineer at https://incident.io/. Previously @GoCardless | Writes at http://blog.lawrencejones.dev | @lawrjones on Twitter
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The amount of Lime bike green I can see in the London naked cycle photos is making me reconsider ebiking as a social good

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Was fun changing our Old Street billboard to focus on eng hiring last Friday. Went a few rounds with the team and felt this represented us well!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote up a journey of optimising an LLM prompt for latency, reducing the time from 11s to just 2s by being careful with tokens. Loads of lessons here for people working with AI! incident.io/building-wit...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday we launched a microsite of stories from our AI team. To my knowledge, it’s the best repository of genuinely useful AI engineering content on the internet to date. I’m so proud of the team for this and can’t thank our designers enough for how amazing it looks. incident.io/building-wit...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

It's been great fun sharing our approach to AI with Gergely, born out of the last year hitting our heads against AI. This is an awesome article that I'd encourage anyone building systems with generative AI to read! Thank you for the feature!

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

8 years ago Chris and I dealt with a horrible Postgres incident where RAID array battery failure was an extremely painful red herring. Good to see he’s back in the game after all that time. These disks must really be something!

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes I wonder how many burritos a week is too many burritos

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

How is this a thing

submitted 117 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 121 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 123 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 126 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 137 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 142 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 147 days ago • 0 comments