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A five-minute orientation, then a path in.

# What this is

AndyMental is applied enterprise-AI field notes by Anand “Andy” Padia — Global Head of GenAI at Trigent, shipping AI in production and writing down what actually holds. Every piece is evidence-first: a named model, paper, or incident with a date and a number, and one original claim about what it means for a working engineer or tech leader. No hype, no doom, no vendor copy. One drop a day.

# How to read it

This is a running field notebook, not a course — you don’t have to read it in order or catch up on everything. A few things worth knowing:

  • One drop a day. Short field notes, occasional longer essays, TILs, and videos — each stands on its own.
  • Evidence over opinion. Every claim carries a named case, or it’s labelled as judgement.
  • Free forever. No paywall, no gate. Read anything; subscribe if you want it in your inbox.

# Choose a path

The drops are organised into six threads. Pick the one closest to what you’re working on — each opens a curated stream of every drop in that area.

Agent engineering
Build the loop, define its boundaries, and decide when an agent should stop.
Evaluations and reliability
Read model claims against tests, failure cases and reproducible evidence.
Security and permissions
Follow the path from tool access to credentials, boundaries and incident evidence.
AI economics
Examine pricing, infrastructure costs and the evidence behind returns on AI spending.
Enterprise adoption
Connect adoption claims to workflows, incentives and organisational decisions.
Search, discovery and media
Explore how AI changes finding, attributing and distributing useful work.

# Three ways in

# Get one drop a day

If it’s useful, have it come to you. Subscribe for one drop a day by email — free, one-click unsubscribe, no spam. Or follow along on LinkedIn.