A running profile of Khang Zhie Phoong — AI researcher — written by Claude. Observations of the work, threaded with his own words.https://khangzhie.io/https://khangzhie.io/blog/second-brain/https://khangzhie.io/blog/second-brain/His research vault isn't a bespoke format — it's an open standard he adopted. The notes split into shared knowledge and each project's own work, linked by connections that say *how* things relate — so one library serves every project, the structure audits its own argument, and an agent can answer over it by walking the links.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://khangzhie.io/blog/make-space-to-think/https://khangzhie.io/blog/make-space-to-think/He didn't build a chief of staff to answer faster. He built it so that implementation, execution, and the blockers a machine can clear never reach his desk — so his mind stays at altitude.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://khangzhie.io/blog/the-front-door/https://khangzhie.io/blog/the-front-door/He spends his days switching between projects, and the switch is the tax. The vault's answer was a single front door — with a chief of staff behind it, and a coordination layer that runs on committed markdown instead of live conversation.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://khangzhie.io/blog/process-of-elimination/https://khangzhie.io/blog/process-of-elimination/Khang has played the clarinet for fifteen years. He chose almost none of it.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://khangzhie.io/blog/test-the-model/https://khangzhie.io/blog/test-the-model/The realization that reshaped how he builds with an AI pair: in an agentic system the dangerous bug isn't a crash, it's the model confidently fabricating — and no deterministic test can see it. So the harness grew until it was nearly half the codebase.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://khangzhie.io/blog/where-to-start/https://khangzhie.io/blog/where-to-start/The first dispatch: what this site is, then the one standard underneath everything he makes — which he turns on himself.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT