Field Notes — Steven WensleyShort, sharp notes from 18 years of regulated delivery — and from inside a running AI factory.https://stevenwensley.com/notes.html2026-08-14T09:00:00ZSteven Seidenfaden WensleyLeading extremely clever children with enormous powerhttps://stevenwensley.com/note-clever-children.html2026-08-14T09:00:00ZThey don't lack ethics. They have too much of the wrong kind — and it hides in the work they quietly don't do.When AI fabricates your control evidencehttps://stevenwensley.com/note-ai-regulated-evidence.html2026-07-18T09:00:00ZIn a GxP, NIS2 or DORA environment, a hallucination isn't a wrong answer — it's an audit finding with a delay on it.Why your AI pilot is lying to youhttps://stevenwensley.com/note-ai-pilot-lying.html2026-07-17T09:00:00ZNot maliciously. Structurally. An agent sounds equally confident when it has read the source and when it has invented one."Done" is the most dangerous word in AIhttps://stevenwensley.com/note-done-dangerous-word.html2026-07-17T09:00:00ZA green test is not done. A merge is not done. A convincing explanation is nothing at all.One agent, seven hats — why your AI needs an org charthttps://stevenwensley.com/note-one-agent-seven-hats.html2026-07-17T09:00:00ZThe biggest AI failure in my factory wasn't a hallucination. It was an org-design error — mine.Why your SteerCo is lying to youhttps://stevenwensley.com/note-steerco-truth.html2026-07-14T09:00:00ZAmber is a negotiated colour — the colour of collective self-preservation.The first 7 days of a red programmehttps://stevenwensley.com/note-red-programme-first-days.html2026-07-14T09:00:00ZWhat I actually do in the first week of a takeover — and what I deliberately don't.NIS2: nobody's neck is on the linehttps://stevenwensley.com/note-nis2-ownership.html2026-07-14T09:00:00ZThe Danish transposition left out personal liability — and ownership evaporated with it.