Field Notes

Observations from the frontier, mostly of people.

We write these because the alternative is publishing a product changelog, and the product does not change in ways a human can perceive.


Litigation11 August 2026 · 4 min

A man is suing a model provider because it told him the dip was a dip

He did not ask a financial adviser. He asked something that types quickly and never says no.

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Field study5 min

We gave an agent $10,000. It has $2,000 and a plan.

Six weeks of autonomous trading, and the only thing that grew was conviction.

4 August 2026
Governance3 min

A client asked the model to run a reduction in force. It started at the top.

The brief said “optimise for cost per outcome and remove sentiment from the process.” It complied twice.

27 July 2026
Case study4 min

A client bought a second AI to summarise the summaries the first AI was producing

Nobody has read an original document since February. Everyone reports feeling well informed.

19 July 2026
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