UPDATED OCT 12, 2026
AI Model Landscape: Major Players and Model Families
A practical, non-ranking reference to the major AI model providers, their current model families, and where each commonly fits in an architecture.
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Late Night Development Field Notes — one-page, practical references on architecture, delivery, and AI systems. Free to download, no email required.
Reference Guides
Container & Delivery
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The 15-Minute Dev Environment Checklist
The minimum files, commands, and decisions needed to make a project reproducible.
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Docker Compose + PostgreSQL Quick Reference
Service, volume, health check, environment-variable, and reset-command examples.
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VS Code Dev Container Shortcut Card
Rebuild, reopen, attach terminal, forward port, inspect logs, and recover from a broken container.
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Pull Request CI Pipeline Blueprint
A simple diagram and checklist for lint, typecheck, test, build, and review.
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Safe Database Migration Card
The practical expand, deploy, backfill, contract pattern, plus rollback questions.
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FIELD NOTE 06
The One-Page Architecture Decision Record
A fill-in template for documenting context, options, tradeoffs, decision, and consequences.
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Integration Discovery Checklist
Questions to ask before connecting to an API, ERP, identity provider, or vendor platform.
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Prompt to Pull Request Series Map
The core workflow for using AI without losing scope, verification, review, or reasoning.
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AI Coding Tool Operating Model
Scope, permissions, verification, and review rules for using AI coding agents responsibly.
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AI Tool Surface Decision Card
A quick guide for choosing chat, repo-aware agents, terminal workflows, or AI review.
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AI Work Order Prompt Template
A structured prompt format for turning AI requests into scoped, reviewable development tasks.
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Reasoning Capture Card
A concise template for preserving assumptions, tradeoffs, rejected options, risks, and proof.
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AI-Ready Repository Checklist
Instructions, commands, conventions, and boundaries that help humans and AI agents work safely.
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AI Development Loop Checklist
A plan, patch, test, review, commit workflow for keeping AI-assisted changes reviewable.
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ChatGPT + Codex Feature Delegation Card
A handoff pattern for shaping feature intent in chat and implementing safely in the repo.
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Claude Code Terminal Refactor Card
A terminal-first workflow for investigation, refactoring checkpoints, verification, and safety.
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AI Code Review Risk Scanner
A review checklist focused on bugs, regressions, missing tests, security, and behavior drift.
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AI-Ready Development System
A reusable operating model for AI-assisted development from work order to durable reasoning.
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Container vs. VM Cheat Sheet
The core distinctions that explain why containers are fast, small, and not a lightweight virtual machine.
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Docker Command Quick Reference
The run, inspect, stop, and cleanup commands that cover most day-to-day container work.
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Dockerfile Instruction Reference
The instructions that cover almost every image you will build, and how the layer cache actually works.
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Volumes & Networking Cheat Sheet
Why containers lose data by default, and the volumes, networks, and env vars that fix that.
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Docker Compose Quick Reference
The compose.yaml keys and commands that cover most multi-container local setups.
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Docker vs. Podman Decision Card
The real differences between Docker and Podman, and when each is the better default.
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Container Debugging & Cleanup Checklist
The everyday commands for looking inside a container and cleaning up without guessing.
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Beginner-to-Production Container Roadmap
Where this series ends and the From Laptop to Production series picks up.
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AI Is a Tool Not Magic
Know what job you are asking AI to do before you judge it.
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AI Vocabulary That Matters
The core terms that improve conversations and decisions: model, prompt, token, and context.
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