Working Notes · Aaron Taylor

Notes on AI, engineering, systems, and things I’m still figuring out.

A public notebook for experiments, observations, and unfinished thoughts. Less polished blog, more working record.

Notes can be unfinished. They should not be unclear. Each one opens with its finding, and carries a status saying how settled it is.

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ScrapThree checks that read the wrong layer11 September 2026 005Three times out of three, it refused a free change8 September 2026experimentevolving 004Nothing built, and the design lost a server7 September 2026researchevolving 003Six adjectives got seven of the nine checks7 September 2026experimentevolving 002The name only fitted one of the four3 September 2026decisionevolving

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What a note is

A working note records something I actually tried: the question, what I expected, what happened, where it broke, and what I currently think. Notes can be unfinished. They should not be unclear.

Each note carries a status. Evolving means my view is still moving. Stable means it has settled, though it is still open to revision. Revisited means I came back and changed my mind about something. Archived means I no longer stand behind it and have left it up anyway.

Recurring themes

AI agentsWhere they help, where they quietly add work.
Memory and contextWhat a system should remember, and where that lives.
Spec-first developmentDeciding what to build before building it.
Developer workflowsThe small tools and habits around the work.