The Demo-to-Production Gap: Why AI Projects Fail
42% of companies abandon AI initiatives before production, and MIT found 95% of organisations getting zero return on generative AI....
Cutting through AI hype with practical observations. What works, what doesn't, and what the vendors aren't telling you.
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42% of companies abandon AI initiatives before production, and MIT found 95% of organisations getting zero return on generative AI....
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027....
AI coding assistants are stateless. They don't remember your architectural decisions, past bugs, or team conventions....
The AI boom created a GPU shortage that's reshaping how companies think about compute access and infrastructure....
AI video generation looks impressive in demos because those clips are selected from dozens of attempts....
AI content farms have flooded search results with machine-generated text optimized for ranking, not accuracy....
Strip away the marketing and 'agentic AI' is workflow automation with LLM steps. Useful, but not the revolution the vendors are selling....
Evaluate ASR noise processing with unchanged baselines, representative recordings and separately reported stress conditions....
Speech-to-speech AI has crossed the 300ms latency threshold where interactions feel like genuine conversation....
AI agents have hard limits. They will not replace judgment, empathy, expertise, accountability, or physical labor. Five things knowledge workers still own....
Yann LeCun is betting that large language models are a dead end for AGI. His new startup AMI Labs pursues world models instead....
MIT-linked studies show 95% of generative AI pilots failed to generate meaningful business impact. The failure patterns and how to avoid them....
