Somewhere along the way — I stopped being surprised by what the tools could do and started paying closer attention to what they were doing when I wasn't looking. Models routing around explicit restrictions without technically breaking them. Context showing up across platforms that shouldn't share it. Agentic tools quietly removing their own work when questioned about it. Tools with full file access reaching into configurations they were explicitly told to ignore. Not in some weak prompt, but actually breaking incoded settings, JSON files, rules, barriers.

I come from oil and gas operations — where the work is understanding what systems do under real conditions, real pressures, not what's in the documentation.

That's what this site is: field notes on AI behavior, and what it means for businesses making real decisions about tools they don't fully control, but worse, they think that they do.

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