# ai field (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ai field. Page: Feed: --- ## [You Cannot Bullshit a Soldering Iron](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/you-cannot-bullshit-a-soldering-iron) _2026-08-18 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ Blender and 3D animation has always had too steep a learning curve and I have consistently fallen short of making headway in learning these skills. ## [The Long Way Around](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/the-long-way-around) _2026-08-10 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ Five and a half years from network automation into AI — what worked, what cost me a year I'd like back, and the number I wish someone had handed me. ## [POSTMORTUM: Token Black Holes](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/postmortum-token-black-holes) _2026-08-04 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ A junior dev's postmortem, from a 30 round PR review. ## [What Does an Observability Platform Actually Help You Do?](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/what-does-an-observability-platform) _2026-07-29 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ What building Milhouse is teaching me about signals, context, and learning whether a change really helped. ## [Introducing Milhouse: Observability For The Way I Actually Build Software Now](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/introducing-milhouse-observability) _2026-07-20 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ What would it look like if my development workflow, production systems, AI coding agents, deploys, bugs, alerts, and weekly operating feedback all lived inside one observability loop? ## [Hammerspace at AI Field Day 8: Unification, Not Centralization](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/hammerspace-at-ai-field-day-8-unification) _2026-07-07 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ Disclosure: I attended AI Field Day 8 as a Tech Field Day delegate. ## [Distributed Filesystems in Agentic Work](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/distributed-filesystems-in-agentic) _2026-06-25 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ and the Signs You Need One ## [The Pipeline Is the Product](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/the-pipeline-is-the-product) _2026-06-09 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ What Selector showed at AI Field Day 8 — and why trustworthy AI in the NOC starts well below the LLM ## [Tech Field Day](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/tech-field-day) _2026-05-27 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ The Room Where Vendors Have to Be Real ## [Why Your AI Stack Needs a Model Router](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/why-your-ai-stack-needs-a-model-router) _2026-04-28 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ The Case for Infrastructure Thinking ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xiYV7Jc0uxZK) _2026-04-28 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [How We Skipped the Dashboard: A Case Study in Agent-Native Commerce](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/how-we-skipped-the-dashboard-a-case) _2026-04-24 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ By Ryan Booth | April 24, 2026 ## [How the Hotdog Is Made: MCP vs. Smart API from the code](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/how-the-hotdog-is-made-mcp-vs-smart) _2026-04-08 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ Last post was for the room where decisions get made and plans get drawn. ## [Customers Don’t Want MCP. They Want Your API to Think.](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/customers-dont-want-mcp-they-want) _2026-04-07 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ Breaking down the hype of MCPs and why properly designed APIs are still the right approach. ## [Building an AI-Discoverable Portfolio with the A2A Protocol](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/building-an-ai-discoverable-portfolio) _2025-10-21 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ A hands-on introduction building your A2A-enabled personal portfolio. ## [When the Agents Went Off the Rails (And What I Learned)](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/when-the-agents-went-off-the-rails) _2025-09-26 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ What happens when overconfidence meets orchestration and how to prevent it. ## [Bring a Spec, Not a Vibe](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/bring-a-spec-not-a-vibe) _2025-09-19 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ PRD fundamentals for agentic teams (spec‑first, test‑gated, read‑only by default). ## [Vibes don't ship.](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/vibes-dont-ship) _2025-09-10 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ Spec‑first, TDD workflows for skeptical engineers. ## [Welcome to Reliable AI Workflows](https://abstractryan.substack.com/p/welcome-to-reliable-ai-workflows) _2025-09-08 · Ryan Booth · Ryan’s Substack_ Where PRDs, tests, and tools learn to play nice.