Field Notes
Writing
Practical essays on AI adoption, engineering leadership, digital platforms, reliability and the operating systems that help teams ship useful work.
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AI Code Review Guardrails That Senior Engineers Actually Respect
Practical 7-guardrail framework + checklist that dramatically increases adoption among senior engineers while protecting quality and ownership.
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Post-Hackathon Productionization Playbook
Complete playbook with scoring rubric, governance model, 6-week checklist and metrics to turn hackathon wins into reliable production systems.
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The 48-Hour Laboratory: Why Hackathons Are the Missing Operating System for AI Experimentation
AI adoption does not fail because organisations lack intelligence. It fails because our learning loops are too slow...
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Respecting the Craft: How to Convince Software Engineers to Use AI Without Trivialising Their Work
The hardest part of AI adoption in software engineering is no longer the models...
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Scaling AI Engineering Teams
Building high-performing AI teams requires more than technical expertise...
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Leading Distributed AI Teams
Remote AI teams need different communication patterns...
More field notes coming as the work evolves.