Field notes

Writing from inside the work.

Notes on building agents that survive contact with real work — including the parts we got wrong first.

Your AI should be doing more than drafting

Most businesses stopped at faster first drafts. The jobs worth handing over are the ones that finish without you.

7 min read

The first task you delegate decides whether there is a second. Frequency, boundaries, blast radius — in that order.

6 min read

Everything between a working demo and an agent you can leave running is edge cases, evaluation and guardrails.

8 min read

A full teardown of what is wired into this business — what each connection is allowed to touch, and where it still fails.

10 min read

TODO — post bodies are placeholder drafts; replace before publishing

Rather talk

Most of what is written here started as a question on a call. If you have one, that is the fastest route to a useful answer.