Field Notes / ai-engineering
AI engineering field notes
Reports about putting AI into engineering work without losing review, provenance, or technical ownership.
Scope boundary: This hub covers engineering control. Product safety remains in its own domain.
Operating situation
Inspect the problem: AI Engineering ControlInspectable proof
System Digital Twin in Four Weeks
How two people built a textual system twin for a large inherited codebase in four weeks.
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AI Engineering Control
Two roadmaps make fresh code feel like legacy
What a repository reveals when the team's real planning horizon is shorter than the official product plan.
Two roadmaps make fresh code feel like legacyAI Engineering Control
Agents work better as advisors
A practical boundary for agentic engineering when confident automation is still wrong often enough to matter.
Agents work better as advisors