Field Notes · Insights
Long-form notes on building AI that earns its trust.
Pieces from Scott Darrow on what's actually happening inside companies betting on AI — and what it takes for a solo founder with one AI collaborator to ship a system an enterprise can verify. Field reports, not vendor decks.
2025–2026 AI-Assisted Development ~22 min read
Founder Essay
Claude Code
Architecture
One Founder. One AI.
One Production System.
How Claude Code and I built a multi-tenant, 12-stage AI hiring intelligence platform — and shipped the audit system that proves every score it produces.
The minimum viable team for building a sophisticated SaaS platform is collapsing — not
because engineers are becoming less valuable, but because the leverage available to a
skilled technical leader has increased by an order of magnitude. This is a field report
from inside that collapse.
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2026-05-20 Field Notes ~11 min read
Field Notes
Industry Analysis
Workforce
The AI Replacement
Theatre.
What's actually happening inside the companies making the headlines.
The headlines say customer service, driving, and coding are over. The METR data, the
Gartner survey, and the Klarna reversal say something different. Here's what's
actually happening at Spotify, Uber, IBM, Salesforce, Google and Meta — once you
read past the earnings-call quotes.
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2026 Founder Essay ~7 min read
Founder Essay
Dyslexic Thinking
Future of Work
We were built
for this.
Why the AI-native era of IT runs on exactly the way the dyslexic mind is already wired.
AI is dismantling the parts of technology work that used to gatekeep it — the syntax,
the documentation, the literacy-heavy layer — and elevating the parts dyslexic minds
do natively: architecture, pattern recognition, the lateral leap. The era finally
rewards the operating system some of us were running all along.
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