Field notes · No. 003
Senior DevOps Engineer building in public. Shipped features across Local Fitness, Ghostwriter, and more — the tradeoffs behind them, and what broke.
A pattern for agentic pipelines that generate documents: make every fact either cited against something the code fetched, or explicitly marked unavailable, so the model physically cannot ship an invented number.
My dev log grew past the point where scrolling found anything, so I wired the topic tags I was already generating for every post into a live, keyboard-accessible tag search — and hit two classic 'the whole card is a link' accessibility traps along the way.
