Lawrence Lawson

Payment Systems Engineer ⚡️
Learning AI Automation one project at a time.
Building in public.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

Hi, I'm Lawrence.

I'm a Payment Systems Engineer from Zimbabwe.

I'm documenting my journey learning AI Automation while continuing to build expertise in payments.

Here you'll find:

- Payment systems
- AI automation experiments
- Engineering lessons
- What I'm building in public

Follow along.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@valuetainment What does it do that @amazon Alexa doesn't?

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@HLPClips People hear this and think it means grind harder.

Dorian trained 4 days a week. Sessions under an hour. One all-out set.

"Use it like fire" was never about more hours. It was about how hot you burn in the time you're there.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@hubermanlab People hear this and think it means grind harder.

Dorian trained 4 days a week. Sessions under an hour. One all-out set.

"Use it like fire" was never about more hours. It was about how hot you burn in the time you're there.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

Everyone's going to focus on the 85%.

The real line is: "not yet usable for professional biology research."

Anthropic just publicly admitted their best bio model is still walled off from the people who'd get the most out of it.

"Trusted access pathways" is the thing to actually watch.

[Claude @claudeai]

We’re updating Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards to reduce false positives. In our testing, this update reduced biology-related fallbacks by about 85% across our product surfaces.

Fable can now assist on a wider range of everyday health and educational questions.

We believe the biggest positive impacts of AI will be in biology and medicine, and we’re committed to putting frontier intelligence safely into the hands of as many researchers as possible. Fable will continue to fallback to Opus 5 for requests we consider dual-use—including virology, toxicology, and molecular design—so it isn't yet usable for professional biology research and drug development.

We're committed to closing that gap through trusted access pathways for frontier biology capabilities.

https://t.co/zbjxPhc909

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@claudeai A false positive is a capability regression.

Refreshing to see a lab treat it like one instead of shipping the number and calling it safety.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

Here's the part nobody mentions:

Japan has the most AI-friendly copyright law on earth. Article 30-4, train on almost anything, legally, since 2018.

The exact fight US labs are still burning millions on in court, Japan settled before ChatGPT existed.

And they still didn't ship a frontier model.

So it was never a data problem. It was an org chart problem.

They had a cheat code but they never used it!

[Hannah @anah_sahh]

why is Japan so behind in AI

they gave us robots
bullet trains
PlayStation

and yet barely show up in the AI race

what actually happened ?

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@HLPClips @JamesClear @hubermanlab We don't have habits. We are them.

Your body = what you ate for 5 years
Your bank account = what you bought for 5 years

Your skill = what you practiced for 5 years

Your thinking = what you consumed for 5 years

None of it happened today.
All of it is showing up today.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@SKatalystAI

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

POV: Launch date is 2 days away

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@Nickmystery1 @stripe @X I was actually surprised when I bumped into their account 😅. I thought I was gonna see millions!

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

Don't you think @stripe deserve to have 1M+ followers?

Let's show them some love, @X family, if you get your payouts via Stripe!

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@shirshakchavan

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

Caption this....

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@VusiThembekwayo Me trying to start a 'Public Speaking' business after I watched @VusiThembekwayo speaking on YouTube 🤣

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@AIatMeta You guys always introduce new products that don't match what your competitors are offering in this AI space.

Plus when it comes to privacy 0/10

I'll stick to Brother Claude.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@nitindotdev Thanks for sharing buddy. Will share the Playlist with my young brother.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

Pure per-seat SaaS pricing dropped from 21% to 15% in twelve months.

Everyone read that as "outcome pricing won."

It didn't.

Hybrid won. Base fee + metered AI credits. Now 41% of SaaS, up from 27%.

Intercom's Fin is the proof. $100M+ ARR at $0.99 per resolved conversation.

And they still charge per seat underneath it.

Nobody killed the subscription. They stapled a meter to it.

If your product has AI in it, are you metering, or still selling chairs?

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@shirshakchavan 'Toon' sounds like something out of the 'Despicable Me' movie 😂. What on earth is that?

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@tcmundondo The four questions nobody wants to raise on day one:

– who owns what percentage
– who decides when you two disagree
– what happens if someone stops working
– how someone exits, and at what price

Every one of these gets raised eventually. You just don't get to pick the timing.

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

@shirshakchavan You are beast of no nation man! 🤣

You make feel like I ain't doing sh*t!

[Lawrence Lawson @originallawson]

Here's what I think @ConnorTalksAI

The wiring isn't the hard part. The confirmation step is.

Live is latency-bound, speak/pause/interrupt decisions multiple times a second. Delegation is the opposite shape: long-running, stateful, connector-authed, approval gate before anything writes.

Two surfaces, one product name.

And approving by voice when you can't see what it's about to touch is how you ship something you didn't intend.

Voice captures intent. Screen approves. Notification when it lands.