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Four products, each defended in public.

What comes next is the reasoning underneath the work — written down, dated, and open to disagreement.

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The Decision Memo — newsletter cover by Teja Padala LinkedIn newsletter · published
The publication

How I make the call, in writing.

Each edition takes one live decision in AI product work, states the trade-off plainly, and commits to a position I can be held to.

Two editions · August 2026
001 The Decision Memo · August 3, 2026

OpenAI Cut Luna’s Price by 80%. Which of Your Workflows Still Need the Expensive Model?

The decision: which workflows are cheap to be wrong in — and which still deserve the expensive model.

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The Decision Memo — edition 001 Edition 001 · pricing and consequence
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From what a model costs, to what a model is allowed to do without asking.

002 The Decision Memo · August 17, 2026

How Much Autonomy Has Your Agent Earned?

The decision: what evidence has to exist before an agent acts without you in the loop.

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The Decision Memo — edition 002 Edition 002 · earned autonomy

The Decision Memo

The choices behind AI products, systems, and the work they change.

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The decisions came from somewhere.

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