Field Notes

Every automation, shipped in the open.

Build logs and short lessons from running a fleet of AI agents solo. Every post is a real thing I built, broke, or fixed. Proof, not promises.

2026-08-06 The Solo AI Fleet I gave one person an AI army. Here's what broke first. The failures that cost me real time had nothing to do with the model. They were the boring infrastructure around it, and that's the whole lesson. read →

Soon Running AI Cheap Your "always-on AI employee" is just cron, git, and a cheap server. How one small scheduled job runs an entire project portfolio. No Kubernetes, no agent framework.

Soon AI You Can Trust I caught my AI inventing a number. Then I built a machine to block it. A specific with no source is a hallucination until proven otherwise. The small commit hook that enforces it.