Field Notes

Weekly notes from building real systems with AI — what worked, what bit me, and the protocols that came out of it. Written from practice, not theory.

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2026-07-14

The skill is the protocol, the ledger is the memory

Working with AI every day taught me that the model was never the bottleneck — the missing operating system around it was. Here are the four layers I now run everything on.