Field notesWriting
What I learned by watching things fail.
Written after the fact, with the numbers I could verify and none I couldn’t.
- agents · cost · tomie
Routing agent decisions through a $0.00002 model
Every yes/no, choice and score on my agent server goes to a small calibrated model, not a frontier one. What that costs, what it is bad at, and what happens when it goes down.
- offline-first · data integrity · field ops
What died in transit: offline-first field data in Peshawar
Collections recorded on phones with no signal, and a delivery log that Excel had quietly rewritten. Two ways data dies between the field and the database, and how I stopped both.