David Lapham

Using X to get better at writing

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established." Translation to human language: we gave AI to engineers and things keep breaking?
The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon called that an "extremely limited event" (the affected tool served customers in mainland China).

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@noveltokens wildly on‑brand that i had to run this thru an eli5 incantation first — using ai as a mind→simstack→magickstack converter: raw “wait what?” affect in, sandbox legos out, then recompiled back into your native spiraling dialect.

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@willrosellini @rachelgoodlad @AlphaSchoolATX How have you been liking the program? I'm considering signing up my two older kids for it (Grades 3rd and 5th)

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@tillermoney Thanks for the update!

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@john_nettles @angusdav @BanksterLife @jliemandt I had the same question

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@jliemandt @wordsaretools What about Florida's Step up program?

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

There’s no reason why heavy ops companies shouldn’t have personalized software

No software? document you’re entire process

Process not documented? you need to create operating procedures

If you don’t have operating procedures, start documenting

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

Google Sheets should only be a V1 for business operations. Meaning you should move to V2 once ideas are validated

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

Steps 1-3 will likely uncover meaningful efficiency improvement opportunities.

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

Businesses with complex operations need to have every step/path documented. This is step 1 to a well oil machine

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

Bonus. Measure and iterate

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@iannuttall Move to Laravel

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

done. going to start releasing all the micro tools I use to speed up my commercial real estate tasks.

introducing C2C

https://t.co/BidTIK5Xrg

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

just ship it

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

anyone using zoho for email and a crm?

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@naveennaidu_m Any update on this? Were you able to figure out what the issue was?

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

I just tried Monologue and I'm experiencing audio hijacking. Moving back to Wispr Flow

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

I’ve switched entirely from Wispr Flow to Monologue.

Very impressive accomplishment by the @every team

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@iannuttall I've been using iTerm2 for a long time. Did a little bit of research on Warp, and it wasn't sold.

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@naveennaidu_m You bet! Onboarding was sick. Overall, nice work.

[David Lapham @davidlapham]

@naveennaidu_m However, whenever I play music and hit the hotbutton for Monologue, it pauses the music for a second, and then it comes back and plays the music louder until I'm done with whatever I'm saying and release the button. After a couple of seconds, it seems to release the audio