Field Notes
Occasional reports from the shop floor. Longer reads, real sources, no fluff.
There is no longer one FAR
All 53 parts were rewritten and pushed out as agency deviations before a single rule was final. The authoritative text is now the solicitation.
Read the report AUG 2026 Field Report · USENIX Security 2026 · Hidden Text in Resumes"Ignore all previous instructions" is the rare one
Researchers measured 196,682 real resumes. About 1% carry hidden injections, and over 90% aren't instructions at all. They're hidden data.
Read the report AUG 2026 Field Report · Behavioral Testing · Customer-Facing AIWhen a typo beats the guardrail
A production shopping assistant blocked one correctly spelled question and answered every misspelled version of it. The gap was in where the control sits.
Read the report JUL 2026 Field Report · Bartz v. Anthropic · Final ApprovalThe learning was legal. The shortcut wasn't.
A federal judge just approved the largest copyright recovery in US history. The lesson isn't what you think: the AI training was legal. The shortcut wasn't.
Read the report JUL 2026 Field Report · MIT NANDA "GenAI Divide" · State of AI in Business 2025Everyone adopted AI. Almost nobody got paid.
MIT's Project NANDA studied 300+ enterprise AI deployments. The few who saw returns started in the back office.
Read the report JUL 2026 Field Report · Market Consolidation · 2015–2026The quiet death of small software
Independent software didn't lose on product. It lost to a playbook: subsidize, absorb, strip, extract.
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