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Working notes from the agent stack.

Long-form writing on agent architecture, multi-agent systems, and the practice of building with AI: the systems behind the lessons, explained in plain language.

Stanford CS329A course overview lecture on self-improving AI agents.

Field Guide · Stanford CS329A

Build the loop, not the myth

A practical field guide to self-improving AI agents: inference-time search, verification, synthetic learning loops, long-horizon evaluation, and prompts for Codex, Claude, and Gemini.

Learning AtlasAugust 4, 202624 min read
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Five green option-nodes converging along thin lines into a single dark decision point, over the title "Don't Outsource the Thinking."

Field Notes

Don't Outsource the Thinking

A daily practice for using AI to sharpen your critical thinking instead of replacing it. Written from product design, but it applies to any product development discipline.

Jay TrainerJuly 21, 20268 min read
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Mission Control Team Board showing five named agents, in-progress work, decisions awaiting a human tiebreaker, and completed overnight maintenance.

Build Log

How My Agent System Works (And Where It's Different)

A plain-language explanation of the five-agent system I built for a recent project: how it compares to other AI agent tools, where it is genuinely better, where it is not, and why it matters for product design work.

Jay TrainerJuly 15, 202612 min read
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Peer Spotlight

Evals for the AI PM

My peer Cait Batzinger's first article: AI product managers should hold themselves to the same quality bar they hold their products to: a four-tier competency framework plus an AI coaching agent, Meridian, that scores her against real work output.

Cait BatzingerJuly 9, 2026
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