Jay Lawrence

Blog · field notes from the work

Engineering decisions, written down.

Practical notes on AI-assisted development, frontend architecture, product judgment, privacy, and the systems that help teams ship responsibly.

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Frontend security

Frontend HIPAA readiness: protecting PHI in the browser

What a frontend security review taught me about keeping clinical data out of telemetry, URLs, durable browser storage, caches, and unprotected deployments.

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9 min read
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AI agent architecture

How we structure product data for AI agents with HIPAA in mind

How we separate the product source of truth, referral documents, AI job persistence, corrections, and PHI-safe progress across an agentic healthcare workflow.

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10 min read
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HIPAA compliance

My journey learning HIPAA compliance as a software engineer

What learning HIPAA changed about the way I think about health data, product decisions, and the everyday responsibility of building software people can trust.

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7 min read
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AI-assisted development

How I use AI in my development workflow as a software engineer

A practical system for using AI to understand codebases, shape ambiguous work, implement carefully, and verify what ships—without outsourcing engineering judgment.

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8 min read