A working journal by Eric MacDougall
Notes from inside the work.
On agents, engineering judgment, infrastructure, and the gap between a convincing demo and a system you can trust.
Built in public, with sources and the edges left visible.
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01 / The journal
Long reads for the decisions
behind the tools.
Each issue starts with a full overview film, then goes deeper in writing. Its related posts appear here after they go live, with direct links back to the discussion.
The writing follows the work.
The weekly journal opens after its overview film and related daily videos have verified public copies. Every source and experiment will have a readable path back to its evidence.
02 / What I keep returning to
Questions worth
staying with.
Agents & control
Hooks, worktrees, role memory, and where instructions need to become enforceable systems.
Testing what happened
Browser and desktop agents, independent oracles, fault injection, and evidence you can sign off.
Compute in reality
Open-weight deployment, neocloud fabrics, queue policy, topology, and completed-run economics.
People & decisions
Engineering hiring, SDLC design, industrial AI, and what stays with humans as execution accelerates.
03 / From the bench
Short notes, full arguments.
The video catches the point. The written note carries the context, examples, evidence, and boundary.
Video notes appear here on their calendar dates after a public YouTube copy or platform post is verified.
04 / A little context
I’m interested in what
survives contact with reality.
I have spent more than two decades in technology, from founding and exiting a software development and marketing agency to engineering leadership roles and co-founding FrameBright. This journal is where I work through what that experience is teaching me now.
More about the road here