Field notes№ 01 to 03
Read with your hands.
Three essays on how AI systems work, built so every idea on the page is something you can drag, break and put back.
- № 01How RAG Actually Finds the AnswerRetrieval-augmented generation, explained the way a pop-up book would do it — every idea on this page is a thing you can pull, drag, and break.
- № 02Inside the LoopAn AI agent is not a smarter model. It's an ordinary model trapped in a very well-designed while-loop. Step through a real one and watch it think, act, fail, and recover.
- № 03The Twenty-Question MachineBinary search, stepped through exactly the way the interpreter sees it — and why it can find one number among a billion before you finish reading this sentence.