Field Note
Tiny teams, heavy systems
AI will make some teams smaller. It will not make the work lighter.
Topic
Governance
Rules, ownership, and control built into the way systems run.
Field Note
How to evaluate platform engineering value
Platform engineering value comes from reducing organizational friction, lowering the marginal cost of safe change, and making delivery evidence visible.
Field Note
The Human in the loop is not a strategy
Human oversight in AI systems must be designed as a control capability, not treated as a reassuring box at the end of a workflow.
Field Note
When the consumer is a machine
Event contracts used to be guidance. With agents on the other end, they're the thing the system actually runs on.