Lawrence Jones

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...

In all seriousness AI is crazy good at this. For established interfaces you can clean room your way into a vendored library that covers all your use cases. We’ve done this a few times at work and it takes about a day of someone’s time and few hundred dollars of tokens.

This blog post from @incident.io absolutely rips. - Great technical detail - Solving a real problem - Leveraging open-source projects I wasn't familiar with but am now super curious Excellent writing and great to promote the rigour they put into system fundamentals ❤️ incident.io/blog/we-turn...

100% the worst thing about the UK heatwave is my router crapping out. I had my suspicions but seeing Claude tell me it's probably overheating has really ended me.

Having a funny thought that people’s aversion to perfectly constructed LLM prose will be what happens when plastic surgery and gene modifications go universally mainstream

i will not be attending the Hasan Piker school walkout

Have been speaking with a load of companies adopting AI and there are some clear trends emerging. Written up my thoughts and predictions for those also trying to think ahead! incident.io/blog/eng-in-...

It's really funny that now AI apps exist we've somehow retconned hand-written code as being 'organic'

It is upsetting that we literally have our own status page product and yet when I type ‘status’ into chrome the first suggestion is Anthropic 😭

Am speaking at ai.engineer Europe this Friday on "Fighting AI with AI" about how we use AI tooling internally at @incident.io to manage the complexity of building AI SRE. It's at 12:20pm in Fleming on the Coding Agents track for anyone who is around!

Don’t get this? Anthropic margin on inference is about 40% from various sources. Mostly aimed at @greybunny.bsky.social (original thread is locked) what makes you think this isn’t full price, whatever that means?

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026. ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

Taking my first proper holiday in a year, very excited to let work stress fade away. Kinda curious how long it's going to take for my system to calm down but cannot happen fast enough.

I wrote about Kat.

It’s upsetting how much working with AI destroys the nirvana of working on trains

The 16k tokens/second is interesting to me after I spent an entire day on Opus 4.6 fast mode the other week. Fast mode totally changed how I was working. The whole ‘multiple worktrees’ thing is irrelevant when the model moves much faster.

Opus 4.6 on fast mode is like… shit, I am for the first time worried about what I’m billing my employer 😭

Been thinking about this a lot since Rory shared it in our channel.

Well this explains our bill

Someone described working with AI as learning how to feed a pet alien machine and I feel this a lot. Working on our AI SRE product and you really do need to get a sense of what it likes, what it doesn’t, how it falls over. Trying many small things one after another until it makes happier noises.

It's insane and entirely predictable that the child safety act in the UK has led to Imgur being banned, which directly limits the ability of UK citizens to see some of the images coming out of Iran.

Have written a 2025 recap of my last year at incident.io including highlights such as the "Swedish prison" where we worked leading up to Sev0, and lessons from growing the AI team from 3 -> 18. It's been a hell of a year, lots of memories. blog.lawrencejones.dev/2025/

Support for education is incredibly important to me. So to celebrate the holidays I'm running a fundraiser until Jan 1st. I'll take a 30-minute call with anyone who donates $50 to one of these educational non-profits. I'm kicking things off by donating $500 to Girls Who Code.

All the way to Waterloo station “we’ve done so well this year, on time, got everything, can get a nice seat on train” Arrive and immediately realise I’ve left the entire 10 person cheese board in the fridge. Now travelling back home with all my bags 😭

So much goes into this. For any internal tool nerds, we’ve written a bunch about what we’ve had to build here: incident.io/building-wit...

Had a great time chatting about how we’ve been building AI SRE at @incident.io with @wparad.bsky.social If you’re working on AI systems or incident response, I’d hope this is a worthwhile listen!

The amount of Lime bike green I can see in the London naked cycle photos is making me reconsider ebiking as a social good

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!

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...