FIELD NOTE / LINKEDIN
Put the decision in a record.
The short film, the complete written thought, and the evidence behind it.
The LinkedIn conversation link will follow its public release.
Put the decision in a record.
Video caption
Put the decision in a record.
Separate observed evidence from plans and assumptions.
Each route needs a trigger and an exit criterion.
My rule: An owned decision can change when operating evidence changes.
Narration uses Eric's authorized AI voice clone.
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Full written post / accessibility read
The illustrative approval service has survived a polished demo. The leadership decision now concerns customer state, differentiation, maintenance, named ownership and exit. Those facts need a durable record that a new operator can inspect months later.
Record the held-out historical cases, policy owner, independent entitlement readback, current incident and export drills, estimated operating cost and the unresolved exceptions. Link each conclusion to its source. A model's fluent agreement is a proposal, not proof.
Build when a differentiated behavior justifies a funded owner. Buy the commodity when an existing service provides the accepted result more reliably. Stop a clone when nobody can support or explain it. Mark unknown when the evidence is still thin and run the narrow test that could resolve it.
Publish the reason, evidence, risk, responsible person and next review date. Recheck after a real policy change and an operator handoff. Do that because durable engineering is measured by the customer outcome the company can keep delivering, not by how quickly the first draft appeared.
Narration uses Eric's authorized AI voice clone.
#EricFieldNotes
Four-beat scene transcript
1. Put the decision in a record.
The illustrative approval service has survived a polished demo. The leadership decision now concerns customer state, differentiation, maintenance, named ownership and exit. Those facts need a durable record that a new operator can inspect months later.
Visual: A prompt transcript is not the company's product commitment.
2. Write what is known and unknown.
Record the held-out historical cases, policy owner, independent entitlement readback, current incident and export drills, estimated operating cost and the unresolved exceptions. Link each conclusion to its source. A model's fluent agreement is a proposal, not proof.
Visual: Separate observed evidence from plans and assumptions.
3. Choose build, buy or stop explicitly.
Build when a differentiated behavior justifies a funded owner. Buy the commodity when an existing service provides the accepted result more reliably. Stop a clone when nobody can support or explain it. Mark unknown when the evidence is still thin and run the narrow test that could resolve it.
Visual: Each route needs a trigger and an exit criterion.
4. Set the next review date.
Publish the reason, evidence, risk, responsible person and next review date. Recheck after a real policy change and an operator handoff. Do that because durable engineering is measured by the customer outcome the company can keep delivering, not by how quickly the first draft appeared.
Visual: An owned decision can change when operating evidence changes.
Research and claim limits
- DORA 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development (S225)
- GitHub Copilot Agents application card (S226)
- NIST AI RMF Core (S227)
The examples identified as illustrative or simulated are design probes, not reported incidents. Vendor specifications do not establish workload performance.