https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/ Field notes from forward-deployed generative AI engineering: agentic systems, context engineering, harness engineering, evaluation, and production deployment. en-us Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/loop_and_graph_engineering_for_agent_optimization/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/loop_and_graph_engineering_for_agent_optimization/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agentic AI The industry conversation is shifting from prompting agents to designing the loops and graphs that evaluate, retry, and improve them, including the outer hill-climb from production traces. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/agent_harness_is_the_product/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/agent_harness_is_the_product/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agentic AI Why the next frontier in production AI agents is the runtime around the model: tools, sandboxes, memory, traces, and control. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/debugging_agent_trajectories/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/debugging_agent_trajectories/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evaluation Agent reliability improves when teams inspect the execution trace, locate the first critical failure, and fix the system around it. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/memory_as_agent_infrastructure/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/memory_as_agent_infrastructure/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agentic AI Agent memory is moving beyond chat history into structured state, experiential traces, working context, filesystems, and trustworthy retrieval. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/prompt_injection_as_social_engineering/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/prompt_injection_as_social_engineering/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Security As agents browse, retrieve, and act, prompt injection increasingly looks like social engineering against a bounded digital worker. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/combining_system_1_and_system_2_thinking/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/combining_system_1_and_system_2_thinking/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI Scaling How fast pattern matching and slower deliberative reasoning show up in modern AI systems, from AlphaGo to reasoning-oriented language models. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/pretraining_compute_to_testtime_compute/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/pretraining_compute_to_testtime_compute/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Scaling Why more capable systems increasingly depend on inference-time search, routing, and verification rather than pretraining scale alone. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/large_reasoning_models/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/large_reasoning_models/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Architecture A look at reasoning strategies that improve model accuracy when tasks require more than immediate pattern completion. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/agentic_rag/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/agentic_rag/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Information Retrieval How retrieval systems change when agents can plan, inspect, execute, and adapt around enterprise knowledge. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/understanding_and_tackling_hallucinations_in_llms/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/understanding_and_tackling_hallucinations_in_llms/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Safety The causes, impact, and mitigation patterns behind AI-generated fabrications in production language systems. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/scaling_inference_compute_for_long_context_rag/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/scaling_inference_compute_for_long_context_rag/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Scaling Optimization techniques, hardware considerations, and architecture patterns for retrieval systems with long context windows. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/softmax_limitation_in_out_of_distribution_data/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/softmax_limitation_in_out_of_distribution_data/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Deep Learning Why softmax probabilities can be fragile for detecting out-of-distribution samples and unexpected reasoning failures. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/large_multimodal_language_models_mmlm/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/large_multimodal_language_models_mmlm/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Multimodal AI How multimodal language models combine text, images, and other signals into richer system behavior. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/jailbreaking_llms_with_deceptive_delight/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/jailbreaking_llms_with_deceptive_delight/ Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Security A practical look at prompt-based model vulnerabilities and what they imply for evaluation and governance. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/mixture_of_experts_moe_vs_dense_llms/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/mixture_of_experts_moe_vs_dense_llms/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Architecture The trade-offs between sparse expert routing and dense model architectures in large-scale language systems. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/leveraging_llms_for_scalable_system_evaluation/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/leveraging_llms_for_scalable_system_evaluation/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Evaluation How language models can be used to evaluate complex systems at scale while still preserving review discipline. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/democratizing_finetuning_of_llms/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/democratizing_finetuning_of_llms/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Accessibility Methods that reduce the cost and infrastructure requirements of adapting models to specific domains. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/power_of_quantization/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/power_of_quantization/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Optimization How lower-precision representations reduce model size and improve inference speed without giving up too much quality. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/detecting_llm_hallucinations_with_semantic_entropy/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/detecting_llm_hallucinations_with_semantic_entropy/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Safety A method for identifying unstable model answers by measuring meaning-level variation across generations. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/power_of_parallel_processing_with_gpus/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/power_of_parallel_processing_with_gpus/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Hardware Why parallel computation matters for modern model training, inference, and real-time AI workloads. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/what_is_generative_ai/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/what_is_generative_ai/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Generative AI The foundations of generative AI and the applications reshaping software, media, and knowledge work. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/retrieval_augmented_generation/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/retrieval_augmented_generation/ Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Information Retrieval How retrieval-augmented generation improves model grounding and decision support across knowledge-heavy workflows. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/large_scale_gpu_pretraining/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/large_scale_gpu_pretraining/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Scaling The distributed systems concerns behind large-scale model training across vast GPU clusters. https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/compound_ai/ https://www.gloqo.ai/field-notes/compound_ai/ Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Generative AI Why real-world AI systems combine models with tools, retrieval, execution environments, and feedback loops.