FIELD NOTES

What I'm learning out there

Short notes from events I attended — one takeaway at a time.

Claude Builders Meetup · Jun 18, 2026

Everyone is building agents; almost nobody is building evals.

A night of demos from teams wiring LLMs into real workflows.

The pattern across every strong demo: a narrow job, a tight feedback loop, and a human approval gate. The weak ones tried to do everything.

My takeaway: ship the boring loop first.

Product × AI Roundtable · Jun 5, 2026

PMs who prototype win the argument before the meeting starts.

Small roundtable on how AI changes product work.

The recurring theme: the spec is becoming a working prototype. Writing docs about what an agent might do loses to showing one doing it.

Exactly the bet I'm making with this site's projects.