N° 00 Writing from the work

Ideas after they
survive production.

Field notes from Chirag Goel on applied AI, production engineering, open source, and the decisions that turn promising prototypes into dependable systems.

N° 01 The territory

What belongs here.

01 / APPLIED AI

Systems built around reality

Users, constraints, evaluations, economics, and the architecture needed to make intelligent software genuinely useful.

02 / PRODUCTION

Past the impressive demo

Reliability, observability, cost, failure modes, and the unglamorous engineering that earns trust at scale.

03 / FIELD NOTES

Lessons with fingerprints

What changed my mind while building, leading, mentoring, and shipping software under real pressure.

N° 02 Editorial standard

When something ships.

  1. 01Specific over sweeping
  2. 02Evidence over theatre
  3. 03Useful over frequent