Field notes
What running agents on my own hardware actually looks like, with the receipts. Reading notes on the research I'm building on, and designs I'd put in front of a team, sit alongside. Field notes come from receipts; designs say they're designs.
Design ·
Authority before action: governing agents like a sales organization
Most agent governance reads like an IT policy. The better model is one every sales leader already runs: territories, qualification, pipeline review and approval levels.
Field note ·
I tested whether a System One model could predict my code judge. It couldn't, yet.
Seven cases looked like a win; 178 said otherwise. What a typed-judgment model is good for in an agent chain, and what it isn't.
Reading notes ·
Reading notes: the harness is the product
Five papers from this year that say what practitioners have been finding: the system around the model matters as much as the model.
Field note ·
988 re-prompts: why my agent loop needed brakes
A plugin that keeps agents working is only useful if it can tell work from motion.
Field note ·
The timestamp that froze the cache
With long prompts, the cheapest token is the one you don't change.
Field note ·
The engine that said it was healthy
A health check tells you the door opens. It doesn't tell you anyone's home.
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