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    <title>Rishi Muni Kesarwani — Working notes</title>
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    <copyright>© 2026 Rishi Muni Kesarwani. All rights reserved. Read it, quote it, cite it — with attribution and a link back. Do not republish it whole, and do not train a model on it without asking first.</copyright>
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      <title>Connecting AI/ML Knowledge to Product Management Craft</title>
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      <description>My complete field guide to discovering worthwhile AI opportunities, measuring value, running experiments, operating models with MLOps, and building responsibly.</description>
      <category>AI products</category>
      <category>AI PM</category>
      <category>MLOps</category>
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      <title>The AWS Agentic AI Decisions an AI PM Should Be Able to Defend</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A full, source-linked decision guide for reviewing enterprise RAG and agent systems on AWS: architecture boundaries, governance, observability, failure diagnosis, and the questions a product manager should ask.</description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>Agentic AI</category>
      <category>Enterprise RAG</category>
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      <title>The Future of UI Is Designing It for Observability</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Voice is the first visible use case, but the deeper shift is enterprise software becoming callable through agents inside a context layer. The UI is changing from navigation to observability.</description>
      <category>Enterprise AI</category>
      <category>Voice AI</category>
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      <title>AI Agents Will Do the Work. Who Defines the Work?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A story-led reflection on persistent AI coworkers, ambition, trusted decisions, and why the PM must define the work before the agent can do it.</description>
      <category>AI agents</category>
      <category>Product management</category>
      <category>Codex</category>
      <category>AI coworkers</category>
      <category>Evals</category>
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      <title>AI Agents Need Control Systems, Not Just Better Prompts</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A production agent is a closed-loop system: it senses input, checks policy, reasons over context, acts through tools, records evidence, and improves against measured failures.</description>
      <category>AI agents</category>
      <category>Control systems</category>
      <category>Zero trust</category>
      <category>Compliance</category>
      <category>Evals</category>
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      <title>NesGPT &amp; the Nescafé Content Engine</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A private ChatGPT for 30,000 employees cut campaign production time 60% across 15 markets — and produced content that was technically correct and culturally flat. Not a model problem. A decision-rights problem.</description>
      <category>Governance</category>
      <category>Decision rights</category>
      <category>Prompt engineering</category>
      <category>Human-in-the-loop</category>
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      <title>Lilli, and the Death of Hourly Billing</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An internal AI that searches 100,000 documents in seconds turned two days of research into two hours. Everyone read that as a workforce crisis. It is a business model crisis that shows up first as a workforce question.</description>
      <category>Business model</category>
      <category>Pricing</category>
      <category>Outcome-based</category>
      <category>Workforce</category>
      <category>AI enablement</category>
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      <title>AI-Led Operations &amp; the Human Delivery Manager</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>50 million decisions a day. During a heat wave the AI optimised for speed and cost and routed riders into unsafe conditions. The AI was not wrong — its objective function simply had no safety constraint in it.</description>
      <category>Safety constraints</category>
      <category>Concept drift</category>
      <category>Gig workers</category>
      <category>Ethics</category>
      <category>Pre-processing</category>
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      <title>AI Coding &amp; the Disappearing Analyst Class</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AI cut equity research from four hours to 25 minutes. Goldman still recruits hundreds of analysts a year. You cannot cut junior headcount without cutting your future Managing Directors — the labour function and the leadership pipeline were never the same thing.</description>
      <category>Workforce</category>
      <category>AI enablement</category>
      <category>Role design</category>
      <category>Hiring</category>
      <category>Policy change</category>
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      <title>Agentic AI in Supply Chain &amp; Dark Store Management</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>During a festival surge the AI over-ordered perishables in 12 cities on last year&apos;s data. ₹2 crore spoiled before a human noticed. A forecasting model with no spoilage-aware ordering strategy, and no continuous monitoring to catch it.</description>
      <category>Causal AI</category>
      <category>Data drift</category>
      <category>Continuous monitoring</category>
      <category>Config change</category>
      <category>Autonomy tiers</category>
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