Field Notes — LanternOpsOperating models from real work. Each note takes a problem we solved for a professional firm and writes down the system that keeps AI useful and safe.https://lanternops.io/Anthropic says AI writes most of its code now. The next sentence is the one that matters.https://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-07-01-review-is-the-job/https://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-07-01-review-is-the-job/The company that makes the model just reported that AI writes most of its code, and that human review has become the bottleneck. For a firm holding client data, that bottleneck isn't a problem to engineer away. It's the product.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI is already in your firm. The question is whether anyone's operating it.https://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-06-23-ai-is-already-in-your-firm/https://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-06-23-ai-is-already-in-your-firm/Every owner is asking whether their firm is falling behind on AI. It's the wrong question. AI is already inside the firm. The risk is that it got there without an operating model.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPutting AI inside your Clio practice without handing over a privileged filehttps://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-06-20-ai-on-your-clio-practice/https://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-06-20-ai-on-your-clio-practice/Why 'just connect AI to Clio' is a governance decision, not an integration, and the operating model that keeps the assistant fast, attributable, and incapable of leaking a privileged document.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI search over your file shares, without leaking the folders it shouldn't seehttps://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-06-18-ai-over-file-shares/https://lanternops.io/field-notes/2026-06-18-ai-over-file-shares/The two ways 'just point AI at the drive' goes wrong, why the index layer is the real asset, and the one rule that keeps an AI assistant from showing someone the HR folder.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT