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.