David Lapsley

From 2021 to 2024, I led teams at AWS whose entire job was to take the judgment of the world’s best network engineers and turn it into software.

The Linux kernel security list used to receive 2-3 bug reports per week.

A leaked internal memo from Red Hat’s CTO and SVP of Engineering, dated March 31, 2026, is making the rounds.

CRITICAL: Axios npm Package Backdoored — 100M Weekly Downloads, Cross-Platform RAT This is not a drill.

A team ported a Go implementation of JSONata from scratch last week.

Stanford just published a study in Science that should make every engineering leader pause.

Last week, Anthropic accidentally published nearly 3,000 internal documents to a publicly searchable database.

Linear’s CEO made a striking announcement this week: the company is pivoting from issue tracking to agentic AI.

Mario Zechner, the creator of the Pi agent framework, published a frank piece this week that’s worth sitting with: agents compound mistakes faster than humans can review them, creating what he calls “cognitive debt” — codebases that evolve beyond the team…

I’ve spent the last month in back-to-back conversations with potential customers.