Notes from work in progress.
Method notes and field reports, written mainly so we stop re-deciding the same things. No hiring announcements, no reposted industry news, nothing written to rank for a keyword.
- Published
- 5 notes
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- Method · Field report · Note
- Cadence
- When there is something to say
- Method
Write the evaluation before you write the agent
Every AI project we have rescued had the same missing piece: no way to tell whether a change made things better.
6 min - Field report
A reconciliation job that took nine hours, and why
A fintech client's nightly reconciliation had grown from twenty minutes to nine hours. The fix was not more hardware.
7 min - Note
An estimate is a forecast, so give it a range
Single-number estimates are a promise nobody can keep. Ranges are honest and, oddly, easier to sell.
4 min - Method
Model the content, not the pages
Most headless CMS projects fail at the content model, weeks before anyone notices it in the interface.
5 min - Note
Design the handover before the first commit
The exit is the part of an engagement most likely to be skipped, so we make it a contractual line item.
4 min
Disagree with one of these?
Genuinely useful to hear. Several of the positions above changed because a client pushed back on them, and the arguments that landed were specific rather than polite.