§ Insights · Field notes
Notes from the studio.
Process, engineering, design — the things we've been thinking about, written without filler.
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FIELD NOTES
Field notesApr 2026
On the quiet integration of intelligence
Why the best language model features feel invisible, and what that means for product teams.
ENGINEERING
EngineeringMar 2026
Bubble at scale: the cases for and against
A pragmatic look at when low-code is the right answer, and when it isn't.
DESIGN
DesignFeb 2026
Designing software with the operator in mind
Internal tools are an interface design problem dressed up as a database problem.
ENGINEERING
EngineeringJan 2026
A small studio's tooling: the stack we trust
The narrow set of tools that consistently survive our project filters.
PROCESS
ProcessDec 2025
Why we ride along with operators before designing
Two weeks of shadowing is the highest-leverage thing we do.
STUDIO
StudioNov 2025
Notes from shipping eleven products in a year
What we learned, and what we changed about how we work.