Ep 44 - AI Promised Value, Demo Passed, Production Called Its Bluff - The Proof Era

🎙️ Coffee, Chaos and ProdSec, Ep 44

Your AI vendor has an amazing demo. Then it hits production and falls over. Then you're explaining to your CISO why the budget got torched in four months instead of twelve.

This week Cameron and Kurt break down the proof era, the moment AI adoption stopped running on hype and started running on receipts. Uber burned a full year of AI budget by April and still can't tie 70 percent AI generated code to shipped features. Starbucks rolled its AI inventory system into every store and watched it double count against the humans already doing the job. And Air Canada found out in court that your chatbot making up a bereavement discount is not a legal defense, it is a liability you own.

From the three week scan that gets cut short so it does not run too long, to the token leaderboard that just teaches your team to loop an agent and call it productivity, to why flat rate AI pricing was never going to survive contact with what these models actually cost to run, this episode covers what proof of value actually has to mean once the demo stops being enough.

If you have ever had to explain to leadership why the thing that looked great in the POV is now a line item nobody can justify, this one is for you.

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