Field Note
The Human in the loop is not a strategy
"Human oversight" is doing a lot of work in AI architecture diagrams. Too much, I think. It usually shows up as a reassuring little box near
Topic
Agent
Where software stops waiting for instructions and starts doing the work.
Field Note
Batch vs Streaming is the Wrong Data Architecture Question
The real architectural decision isn't how fast you process data. It's what you choose to treat as a fact, and whether the machines around it can reason about those facts without asking permission.
Field Note
AI development & Engineering clarity
A few years ago, most engineering organizations were constrained by the same thing: writing code was expensive. Not just in budget terms. Expensive in attention. In coordination. In
Field Note
Alfred does its homework before writing a line of code
There’s a particular kind of frustration engineers know well: you pick up a Jira ticket and the description reads something like “Fix the thing from the meeting.” No context. No requirements/details.
Field Note
I Let an AI Agent Read My Jira Tickets Before Reviewing PRs
How GitHub Agentic Workflows + MCP turned my pull request reviews from context-switching nightmares into fully-loaded briefings