# Forward Operating Base Field Notes

A highly curated list of resources for teams making AI useful inside live work.

The field notes are the research and operating examples behind FOB's approach to deploying AI into real team workflows. Useful AI work starts from real artifacts, owners, review paths, tools, adoption, and proof.

## Themes

- Harnesses: context, tools, checks, evals, and review loops that make agent output reliable.
- Context: durable docs, repos, and source trails as working memory for agents.
- Adoption: examples of AI moving from demos into workflow change.
- Enterprise AI: operating models for deploying agents into accountable company work.
- Operations: team workflows, finance workflows, and agent-speed delivery patterns.

## Current Shelf

Newest-first by source publication or upload date.

- 2026-05-19, YC Root Access, How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-G67yKAHBQ
- 2026-04-07, Latent Space, Extreme Harness Engineering: https://www.latent.space/p/harness-eng
- 2026-04-04, Andrej Karpathy, LLM Wikis: https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
- 2026-04-02, Lenny's Podcast, AI state of the union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc8FBhQtdsA
- 2026-03-19, The Pragmatic Engineer, Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owmJyKVu5f8
- 2026-03-09, The Pragmatic Engineer, Ramp: Lessons from Building a New AI Product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMs8C2_3M0w
- 2026-02-11, OpenAI, Harness engineering: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
- 2026-02-05, OpenAI, Introducing OpenAI Frontier: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-frontier/
- 2025-12-28, Peter Steinberger, Shipping at Inference-Speed: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed
- 2024-09-24, Stratechery, Enterprise Philosophy and the First Wave of AI: https://stratechery.com/2024/enterprise-philosophy-and-the-first-wave-of-ai/

## Use

Use this page to understand what Forward Operating Base studies before deploying into a team workflow. The work applies these patterns to a specific team, live workflow, current artifacts, review boundaries, and adoption target.

Canonical site: https://fob.dev/#vault