Field Notes from the AI Battlefield

Since today is a bank holiday for me, I decided to consolidate a few more of my notes into a post. What follows is a set of guiding “principles” that I’ve found useful over the past year or so and that I’ve codified into various bits of scaffolding I reuse across my projects. As usual, I’ve tried to strip away all of the hype and fuzziness and stick to facts, but everyone has their own way of leveraging AI, so your mileage may vary. However, unlike most of what I read online about AI these days, I am not pi