The Bottleneck Was Never the Model

Short summary

AI initiatives fail not because models aren't ready but because organizational decision-making can't keep up with plummeting build costs. The author identifies three killers: asymmetric approval incentives, missing success baselines, and the new challenge of non-engineers building sophisticated tools. Fixes include shrinking bets below sign-off thresholds, making decision delays visible, and defining success metrics before pilots begin.

• •Organizational bottlenecks, not model maturity, kill AI initiatives
• •Asymmetric incentives make 'not yet' the rational individual choice but a collective disaster
• •Fix by shrinking bets, making delays visible, and defining success metrics before pilots start

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