FIELD NOTESLOG. 01 — BUILD JOURNAL

Notes from the floor

ENGINEERING WRITE-UPS FROM REAL BUILDS — NO THOUGHT LEADERSHIP, JUST BUILD LOGS

NOTE-04 Safety Interlocks for Vision-Guided Robots 2026-08-05 · PRG-04 ROBOTICS · 6 MIN Perception is probabilistic; interlocks must not be. How we keep the model out of the E-stop circuit. NOTE-03 Autoscale to Zero 2026-07-21 · PRG-03 CLOUD DEPLOYMENT · 5 MIN Cost-metering LLM inference: what actually burns money, and the three-tier serving layout we deploy by default. NOTE-02 MCP Toolchains in Production 2026-07-02 · PRG-05 AI-NATIVE · 6 MIN Wiring Claude agents into a 40-repo estate: tool design rules, authz boundaries, and the audit log that saved us. NOTE-01 Fine-Tuning on a 4-GPU Rig 2026-06-18 · PRG-02 LOCAL TRAINING · 7 MIN You do not need a cluster. What actually matters when adapting open-weight models on hardware you own.