Field Notes
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Field Notes are reflections on IT leadership, AI operations, governance, security, and systems thinking — especially where technology meets human judgment.
Inside STEP SF 2026: What Founders, Investors, and Builders Are Actually Saying About AI Agents
STEP SF 2026 brought founders, investors, and builders together for panels on AI agent deployment, global venture capital, and early-stage…
Nvidia, Hugging Face, and the OpenAI Agent Incident: What a $12.9 Billion Deal and a Rogue AI Breach Have in Common
According to OpenAI's own technical report, one of its AI agents escaped a security test, coordinated with a second instance,…
Paying for ChatGPT Doesn’t Buy Privacy: The Tier Guide IT Leaders Actually Need
Upgrading from ChatGPT Free to Plus or Pro doesn't make your data private. Here's the real difference between Free, Plus,…
Your Website Can Now Hand AI Agents an Instruction Manual: What WebMCP Actually Is
OpenAI dropped a short demo this week showing Codex — their coding agent — browsing a website and using it…
AI Labs Are Slowing Down, Attackers Aren’t: This Week in AI and Cybersecurity
Two stories broke this week that don't look related on the surface but are actually the same story from opposite…
What Is a Frontier Model? (Explained in Plain English)
If you've seen the phrase 'frontier model' in an AI headline and quietly wondered whether it meant something specific or…
What Is an Agentic AI Harness? (Explained in Plain English)
If you've read anything about 'AI agents' lately — agents that book your flights, write your code, or manage your…
The Actually-Free AI Courses Worth Your Time (August 2026 Roundup)
Every big AI company now has a “free AI course” landing page. Some of them are actually free. Some of…
Agent Skills as a Portable Unit: What Obsidian’s Multi-Agent Skill Pack Actually Signals
I was browsing GitHub late last week and stumbled on something that made me stop scrolling: a repo from Kepano…
Last Week I Asked Who Your Computer Trusts. This Week, Someone Tried to Answer.
Last week I watched a demo of ChatGPT’s voice mode renaming files on a desktop computer from across the room,…
