Field notes

Writing from the control room.

What we're building, what surprised us, and the posts we wish existed when we started.

MCP is quietly eating podcasting

The shows that ship first every morning aren't the ones with the biggest studios — they're the ones wired into an agent's toolbelt.

A walkthrough of the translation pipeline we ship on every Podviva publish — and why we chose transcripts over dubbed audio for v1.

Every time we propose fully autonomous production, someone asks 'but what about editorial taste?' Here's the argument.

Approval rates, retry reasons, where listeners dropped off, and the one stage that surprised us every time.