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The Magic of "Let's Think Step by Step"
How three words unlocked zero-shot reasoning in large language models—and changed AI prompt engineering forever.
Oct 21
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Souriya Khaosanga
3:35
August 2026
After Day One at Berkeley, the scarce decision was the loop
When agents can execute, the scarce work is designing who sits in the loop versus on it — not “more human oversight” in the abstract.
Aug 15
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Souriya Khaosanga
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AI Cleared the Chart—Judgment Still Owns the Shift
When ambient AI clears the keyboard, the scarce resource is still a clinician who means what hits the chart.
Aug 15
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Souriya Khaosanga
July 2026
Coding with Agents: The Verify-First Harness
Nearly half of agent-authored fix PRs get rejected—so put rules, tests, and human gates inside the harness before you add another tool.
Jul 22
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Souriya Khaosanga
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The Engineering Bottleneck Moved—From Communication to Infrastructure
When coordination gets cheap, verification becomes the scarce resource.
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
Business Education Is Becoming an AI Operating System
Field Notes from Operator Chats: Edition 01 — live conversation with Professor Nathan Yang
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
Agent Sandbox to Production: Five Gates That Survive a Quarterly Business Review
A fraud agent that clears five gates in the sandbox still fails QBR if promotion skips ownership, eval, economics, rollback, or retirement.
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
The Retirement Ceremony: When to Kill AI Workflows Without Ghost Spend
Pilots that never die cleanly leave ghost spend—orphaned embeddings, cron jobs, and API keys. A five-step retirement ceremony kills run-rate within one…
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
Fraud in Legal Payments: Verifying Counterparty Identity Before Agent-Initiated Transfers
CRO brief on payment fraud when agents initiate wires from contract workflows—automation efficiency vs. payment integrity with identity verification…
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
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The Routing Stack: When Cascade Models Beat One-Size-Fits-All Inference
One flagship model for every call overspends on trivial requests—a tiered routing stack cuts inference 30–45% when cascades are observable and tied to…
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
The MRM Memo Your GC Can Audit: Logging Contracts for Prompt + Retrieval Bundles
Board-ready framing for model risk when contracts are the product—five log fields every legal AI deployment must capture before prompt changes ship…
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
The Procurement Scorecard: How Buyers Grade AI Vendors Before Data Flows
Legal MSAs catch liability late—buyers need a six-dimension procurement scorecard (data handling, subprocessors, eval artifacts, autonomous-action caps…
Jul 19
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Souriya Khaosanga
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