Field Notes
Field notes are short, practical writeups based on lived workflow experience.
Not hype. Not product announcements. Not benchmark debates.
Each entry focuses on what happened, why it matters, and what to do differently next time.
If you want structured evergreen frameworks, start with the Guides section. If you want real-world lessons from using these tools under load, you are in the right place.
When our AI workflow became a junk drawer
I ran into this recently on a fairly involved software project where we were using AI heavily across multiple stages of the work.
The project had real complexity. Existing constraints. Existing conven…
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The Moment I Realized the AI Needed the Rules First
I ran into this in a session that started out harmlessly enough.
The AI and I were discussing one of my projects in general terms. Caught up in one of the ideas, I let the conversation slide into actu…
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The Moment I Realized I Was Losing the Big Picture
I ran into this while working on an older control we were trying to improve without replacing outright.
The approach was to layer newer behavior on top of legacy behavior. At first, that worked pretty…
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The day Claude told me to take a nap
If you use AI casually, you might never run into the limits.
If you use it hard, you will.
My workflow is tab-heavy. I often have six to twelve AI sessions open at once, each doing something different…
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