Field Notes, 127 Articles

Notes from the foundry

Engineering essays on generative AI, retrieval systems, and what it takes to ship intelligent software to production.

41Insights // Business StrategyHow Much Does It Cost to Build a Custom AI Agent in 2026?2026-07-2042Insights // DevelopmentCursor AI vs GitHub Copilot: The Ultimate Guide for Agentic Coding2026-07-2043Insights // Business StrategyCustom AI Development vs. Buying Off-The-Shelf SaaS Platforms2026-07-2044Insights // TechnologyEscaping LLM Vendor Lock-in: Migrating to Open-Source Models2026-07-2045Insights // Business StrategyThe Hidden Costs of AI Implementation (And How to Avoid Them)2026-07-2046Insights // HealthcareBuilding HIPAA-Compliant AI Agents for Healthcare Workflows2026-07-2047Insights // HiringHire AI Agent Developers: A Guide for Enterprise CTOs2026-07-2048Insights // TechnologyWhy Your RAG Pipeline is Failing (And How to Fix It)2026-07-2049ComparisonsGrok 4.5 vs Muse Spark 1.1: An Independent Comparison After Ten Days in Production2026-07-1950Tutorial // AIOpsBuilding a Durable AIOps On-Call Agent with Eve.dev2026-07-1851Tutorial // FinanceMulti-Agent Orchestration in Eve.dev: An Autonomous Accounts-Payable Pipeline2026-07-1852Use Cases // BusinessThe Ultimate Research Assistant: Processing 100-Page Contracts with Kimi K32026-07-1753Use Cases // CodingMastering Large Codebases: How Kimi K3 Transforms Legacy Code Refactoring2026-07-1754Use Cases // HealthcareDecoding Biology: How Kimi K3 is Accelerating Medical Diagnostics and Genomic Research2026-07-1755Use Cases // MarketingFrom Video to Insights: Deep Reasoning with Kimi K3's Native Multimodal Engine2026-07-1756Use Cases // FinanceRevolutionizing Quantitative Finance: Kimi K3 as the Ultimate Algorithmic Trading Architect2026-07-1757ComparisonsClaude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3: Choosing the Right Frontier AI for Enterprise Workflows2026-07-1758ComparisonsKimi K3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: The Battle for Long-Context Reasoning in 20262026-07-1759Tutorial // InfrastructureRunning AI-Generated Code at the Edge with Cloudflare Sandboxes2026-07-1660Tutorial // SecurityHardening an AI Code Sandbox: Seccomp, Egress Firewalls, and gVisor2026-07-16