Field notes
Building her in the open
The build log for Work Fairy: what we are making, the decisions behind it, and the dead ends we walked into so you do not have to. Occasionally useful, occasionally just honest.
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Asking permission is a feature, not a failure
The instinct is to make the agent as autonomous as possible. That instinct is wrong, and the reason is not safety — it is trust.
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Talking is the interface (and the hard part is the silence)
Voice makes leaving work out effortless. It also exposes every millisecond of latency you have been quietly tolerating.
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Why the fairy works at night
Every AI assistant I have used waits for me to sit down and drive it. That is the bit I wanted to get rid of.