Lab Notes
Field notes from AI workflow work.
Short essays from inside the build. Context engineering, workflow design, the parts of AI that operators have to live with after the demo. Roughly one every two weeks.
May 13, 2026Practice
Context engineering for ops teams
Prompts are the smallest part of an AI workflow. The largest is the surrounding context — what the model can see, what it should ignore, and what shape its answers should arrive in.
Read note7 minMay 6, 2026Practice
One workflow diagram is worth ten specs
If you can't draw the system on a whiteboard in five minutes, you don't understand it yet — and neither will the team that has to maintain it.
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