Using AI to solve real problems ๐. Full-time husband ๐ Ridiculously pro Europe ๐ช๐บ. Ex-@meta
Joined March 2013
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19 Feb 2025
My first public outage (which got customers emailing me!!)
Here's the conclusion of the story
19 Feb 2025
So I realised, even Cloudflare's daily limits on D1 weren't good enough for me. Finally, I decided to move to a self-hosted API instead. Also successfully migrated all servers to @Hetzner_Online
None of the DB service platforms are built to handle a high row-read load.
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It's insane how fast openai moves. Was literally just building this at work earlier this year!
I'll love trying this out!
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A few Tuesday's ago I had the opportunity to present on my favourite topic and job for the last 2 years to a room of 150 people in Leeds - "LLMSecOps: Deploying LLMs securely to the internet" ๐ค
This was at Community Stack's first conference in Leeds and the vibes were absolutely insane ๐ฅ!
Massive thanks to @sumnerops and the Community Stack crew - already keen for round 2.
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Three things to take away from the talk:
- ๐ Stack your auth. One API key check at the front door is nowhere near enough. You want different questions at every layer.
- ๐ธ Budget what actually costs money. Rate limits don't work here - a 5-character prompt can burn 16k tokens of output. Count GPU-seconds or output tokens and check for budget before the model runs.
- ๐ก๏ธ Own the safety stack. Self-hosted means there's no OpenAI content filter saving your bacon when the model says something nasty.
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The bit that surprised most people was the unit economics. You bill in characters but spend in tokens. A user hands you 5 characters and you burn 10,000 of yours. Every request is basically a blank cheque the attacker gets to write.
Deck is down in the comments if you want a flick through ๐.
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AI agents are the biggest threat to our modern internet infrastructure ๐จ They can:
๐ scan every port for a way in
๐ fire every known CVE at your web apps
๐ drain a vulnerable smart contract end to end
An exploit can now be triggered unattended from an openclaw bot running somewhere ๐พ
The fix is boring but hard. Really, really hard. You're racing a machine ๐ค, so you close every gap before it does the looking for you:
๐ฉน patch the known CVEs the bots fire first
๐ช shut the ports and endpoints you forgot were open
๐ audit contracts before they ship, because there's no undo on-chain
You can't out-run a bot. If your defence is a human hoping to catch the 3am pagerduty alert you've already lost ๐
Jun 9
You can't understate the importance of security in web3.
Everyday we're seeing:
- huge exploits
- smart contract breeches
- social engineering
In the age of AI, perhaps we have a new answer to these problems.
Or maybe we have an even bigger issue.
Check out this great talk from ColuxChain26 with Mudy Edogun, @thewritingdev and @murtuza_merc where they discuss this exact topic and more.
20 minutes of your time for a lot of learning about how AI is changing the game in blockchain - go give it a watch!
youtube.com/watch?v=XcA8Y-yVโฆ
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Did Anthropic change the system prompt for Opus 4.6 today? The model is being super-precise and avoiding over-editing.
I'm really enjoying this experience!
CC: @trq212
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Thank you Forma and @isnit0 for RTing the original application, very cool!
> hey Akash Joshi, youโve been accepted to Forma Bristol!!
sorry for the wait, we know it's been a bit. so happy to have you :)
Jun 5
Thank you for applying to our Residency
We received 500 apps from 50 countries
Sending decisions & invitations this weekend
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This workflow fits quite well with how I use parallel code agents.
I have to hack my way around this in Claude code by importing sessions created in another directory. If we had something like a /move in there that would be great! @trq212
But I'll defo be trying out opencode now!
thewriting.dev/shipping-a-weโฆ
we landed on a pretty good workflow for doing parallel work in OpenCode
this demo is with git worktrees but i also preview an alternative we're working on at the end
this will be in 1.6.0
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97 in Writing. 91 in Speaking. I genuinely didn't expect these scores on my German B1 exam ๐ซก. A year of studying while working full-time, and it actually paid off ๐จ
Super grateful to everyone who encourage me to study and continue on with my language-learning journey. Especially to my family - @thematsci_gal @jshirish68 and my colleagues at DeepL. It's them and their language-learning journies that inspired me to keep on going!
Will I do the German B2? Probably next year ๐
. But I'll be experimenting with the French language till then!
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What do you get when you put 25 community-focussed builders in a single room? You get the Looking For Growth West Midlands Hackathon ๐คฏ.
The past Saturday I had the opportunity to fulfill one of my dreams - participating in a hackathon as a judge - and I couldn't have chosen a better one. It was hosted in the classy The Exchange | University of Birmingham venue.
The winners were wild:
๐ Ozzy - a live chatbot dashboard for a city's publicly available data
๐ A Solar-to-Industry development map
๐ Koan - a travel app built entirely around Warwick University students
What got me was how specific every project was. Nobody built "another AI wrapper." Every team picked a real local problem and went after it. If you're running community hackathons outside London - keep going. This is where the next wave of builders is coming from.
The vibes in the room were impeccable ๐ค, everyone who couldn't be there should be highly jealous! A huge thanks to @lfg_uk team again for making the event possible!
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All the participating teams were insane today. I had 3 teams on third place so had to rely on my co-judges!
"Ask Ozzy" was absolutely nuts - custom dashboards and a chatbot built on Birmingham city data.
Definitely want something like that for every city in England!
May 23
๐ WINNERS
Congratulations to Will, Charlie, and Deji, who designed "Ask Ozzy".
It draws on all publicly available information for Birmingham and summaries the problems and solutions.
Today we proved that You Can Just Do Stuff ๐
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Hey all! I'm joining @lfg_uk in Birmingham tomorrow to judge the Hackathon - Help us build the future!
Hope to see a lot of you there ๐
May 16
One week today. Help us build the future.
Join us in Birmingham next Saturday to build.
Sign up for free ๐
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Akash ๐ฌ๐ง/๐ฎ๐ณ retweeted
May 19
I would like to thank the Manchester Space Programme for sponsoring the Open Space Conference 2026!
You can find out more on our website @ osc.supernovalabs.co.uk
Will be July 17th all day in Manchester, UK
No gatekeepers, unconference format, it will be livestreamed as well.
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Akash ๐ฌ๐ง/๐ฎ๐ณ retweeted
We're after a drinks sponsor for our upcoming Pubmaxxing event next Wednesday the 27th (137 confirmed, 100 more on waitlist): luma.com/gkwfev4o
DM me to get your brand in front of a high signal community of builders across tech, AI, crypto, policy & more.
#londonmaxxing
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Do you trust your AI to run autonomously? I didn't.
Until I stopped hand-holding it and started building better guardrails ๐ค
Introducing the /ticket agent ๐ฏ
Run "/ticket TICKET_ID" and your agent:
๐ Builds the context
๐ Writes a TDD plan grouped by functional commits
๐ Writes the tests and the accompanying code
๐ Generates a well written PR and returns it to you
Check out my "Agent Skills" repo on GitHub to try it out - github.com/akash-joshi/agentโฆ
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Is this what they call Londonmaxxxing?
This is what I'm doing within a 24 hour period:
- Attended the MCP Connect ๐meetup (h/t @Infoxicador @rxShri99 @alpic_ai)
- Staying overnight at Canary Wharf with great views ๐๏ธ
- Giving the German B1 exam ๐ฉ๐ช
"Codemode mentioned" - @Infoxicador
at the MCP connect event
@mattzcarey
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Unfortunately I just took this one photo at the ole' Wharf
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