AI & Systems Notes

Working notes on AI systems, engineering judgment, and production tradeoffs. Most of them started as working notes: when to use agents, where humans need to stay in the loop, how to verify AI-assisted work, and how to reason about web systems when reliability matters.

This is a compact field guide, not a broad resource directory. Start with the agent notes if you are building AI workflows. Start with the browser or embeddings notes if you are debugging foundations. Each note should sharpen a real product or engineering decision.

Mental Models

AI Search and Zero-Click SEO

How I think about adapting SEO content to AI Overviews, conversational search, and rising zero-click behavior.

Dec 21, 2025

Agent Evals and Guardrails

How I think about improving production reliability for AI agents with evals, policy guardrails, and escalation paths.

Oct 10, 2025

AI Agents vs Automation

Working notes on when fixed automation is enough and when agentic workflows are worth it.

Mar 15, 2025