Field Notes

From the field.

Practical writing on AI training, implementation, and what actually works in production.

AICareers

Why AI Changed the Career Game

People keep asking me what AI means for their role. I always struggle to answer, and I finally worked out why: the question asks for a prediction, and AI quietly changed which decision strategy wins.

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Case StudyAI Operations

We Handed a Client a Website With No CMS. Two AI Agents Run the Blog.

A website with no CMS, no plugins and no passwords. The owner publishes by approving drafts from AI agents wired to his own operations data.

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Case StudyAI Operations

10 Days to Production: Building AI Operations for a High-Volume TikTok Seller

A fast-growing apparel brand needed to detect hero SKUs before they stocked out. We built two AI agent workspaces, a breakout probability engine, and 75 automated tests in 10 days. Here's the full case study.

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AI ConsultingFramework

Your Dashboard Is Making You Slower

You invested in dashboards, alerts, and automated reports. Decisions didn't speed up. They slowed down. Here's the mechanism nobody talks about.

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AI ConsultingFramework

All the Data. No Point.

We keep seeing the same thing: teams with more dashboards than decisions. Here's what's actually missing.

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Case StudyAI Operations

We Handed Our Automation System to a Non-Technical Operator. Here's What Happened.

37 Python scripts. One ads manager who'd never opened a terminal. She generated more reports than the engineer who built it.

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Google AdsCase Study

84,624 Placements Later: What We Found Hiding in Google Ads

We audited 84,624 Display placements across 5 accounts and uncovered gaming sites, bot traffic, and spam eating ad budgets. Here's what we learned.

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