JOSHUA WILSON
Field Notes Archive
A complete log of investigations, failures, and ongoing research into generative systems and infrastructure.
FIELD NOTES
Investigations,failures,rabbitholes,andthingsI'mlearning.
Aug 2026
8-min readWhy Modal's keep_warm isn't enough for real-time rendering
I thought keeping one GPU warm would solve cold starts. It doesn't. Memory snapshots, queue depth, and the 2-minute wall are a different problem.
Jul 2026
6-min readI tried to build 6DOF matting on a T4 and learned why H100s exist
12 hours of training. 4GB VRAM. The model crashed on frame 3. Here's the cost analysis and the pivot.
Jun 2026
5-min readThe grid UI is a teaching tool, not a product
Structured diversity + human feedback works for exploration. For production, you need outlier detection and automated correction heads. We learned this the hard way.
