Field Notes

Ideas, observations, and practical lessons on AI adoption, software engineering, LLM workflows, and work that survives contact with reality.

AI Adoption Is Not a Tooling Problem

Useful AI adoption starts by understanding the work, protecting craft, and turning scattered AI usage into operating models.

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Skill issue? Probably. But that’s not the point.

An engineering rant from the post-hype side of AI-assisted development. AI makes you faster, then hands you the bill: more code, more drift, more review, and broken mental.

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