A technical field journal
Field Notes.
Ideas from the awkward middle: where systems, people, and AI meet the real world.
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3AM Lab Notes
Harness Work Is Hard Work
I built my own agent harness to skip the permission prompts — and stuck around because the bones were too interesting.
023AM Lab Notes
Working up one level
Intelligence is now a commodity — and if you can say what you want built, you just became a programmer.
033AM Lab Notes
Read-Only Still Needs Threat Modeling
Observation is not harmless when the observer can summarize, correlate, and leak.
All notes
Observations, positions, and useful scars.
3AM Lab Notes
Building Labs at the Worst Times
A short history of buying the wrong hardware at exactly the wrong point in the hype cycle.
AI NOC Thesis
The AI NOC Is Not a Chatbot for Logs
Dumping every log into a model is not architecture. It is a bill with a search box.
3AM Lab Notes
The Agent Can Ask. The Platform Grants.
A lab note on requests, gates, and temporary authority.