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Field notes.

Short pieces on AI, operators, and the laws of getting things done.

  • AI is only as good as the data underneath it.

    May 2026 · 2 min

    Whatever shiny model you are looking at, the bottleneck is going to be the data layer underneath it.

  • What an LLM actually is.

    May 2026 · 3 min

    I sat with a long Andrej Karpathy video until I could finally explain what is happening when I type into ChatGPT.

  • Stop asking what Claude can do for you.

    April 2026 · 2 min

    I watched Erik Schluntz's vibe coding talk three times before the whole insight landed.

  • The seven-month doubling.

    April 2026 · 2 min

    I do not use AI for where it is. I use it for where it will be in nine months.

  • Nothing compounds by accident.

    April 2026 · 2 min

    What the second law of thermodynamics keeps teaching me about everything I care about.

  • AI tools are not AI agents.

    March 2026 · 2 min

    I keep noticing people use the word 'AI' to mean two completely different things.

  • The pilot graveyard.

    March 2026 · 2 min

    Why a lot of enterprise AI pilots seem to ship and a lot of production rollouts seem to die.

  • Strategy without prototypes is theater.

    February 2026 · 2 min

    I have started thinking that the fastest way to test an AI strategy is to build the smallest version of it before the deck gets approved.

  • What I was nodding along to.

    January 2026 · 2 min

    I spent a year nodding along in AI meetings before admitting I did not actually know how a language model works.

Eugene Zhang · 2026
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