Independent AI journal

Useful models for thinking about AI.

Source-backed explainers about context, systems, agent boundaries, and practical evaluation.

Behind the journal

Notes by Marty Sampson.

I use this journal to make AI systems easier to inspect: what a tool can do, what the evidence supports, and where a human decision still belongs.

Featured field notes

A curated starting point across memory, agent capability, realtime media, and workstation integration.

Why keeping a fact and using it in the right turn are different jobs.

Separate model guidance from tools, identity, host enforcement and evidence.

Follow continuous media through timing, turn boundaries, selected context and interruption.

Separate the workstation, desktop, launcher, agent harness, model provider and project context.