Fantastic dissection of the corporate AI embarassment cycle. The Washington Post example nails why "ship and iterate" doesn't translate from software to reputational capital, there's no rollback button for trust erosion. Seen this play out firsthand where teams optimize for velocity metrics while ignoring second-order effects on brand equity. The really wild part is how companies keep repeating same pattern despite public failures being so well documented.
What's crazy to me is that some of these companies have loads of cash yet are accepting the worst, cheap AI outputs as ads.
Maybe natural stupidity is better than artificial intelligence.
Fantastic dissection of the corporate AI embarassment cycle. The Washington Post example nails why "ship and iterate" doesn't translate from software to reputational capital, there's no rollback button for trust erosion. Seen this play out firsthand where teams optimize for velocity metrics while ignoring second-order effects on brand equity. The really wild part is how companies keep repeating same pattern despite public failures being so well documented.
Funny thing the Coca Cola ad came up as I was reading
We need a “fake Alan Turing” to comment on all of this while we go through this hellish period.