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How to build a DOA product: Humane AI Pin founders banned internal criticism
- zer00eyz 2y agoI just learned today that one of the "core values" at ASML is that you should "challenge" things. This makes for a nice comparison.
- Tostino 2y agoAnother Asianometry viewer in the wild. Hello friend.
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- jsemrau 2y agoThat's a whole category that should have been an app. Little throwback. In 2015, I built an audio-augmented reality running game using Bluetooth beacons. It worked better as an app.
- KaiMagnus 2y agoThat headline almost made me spill my coffee. But in all seriousness, it’s amazing that something like this still happens today. And I can only imagine massive amounts of hubris from the founder‘s side is to blame. Around launch I wondered if they seriously believed what they promised and if anybody there ever tried it themselves. Turns out they didn’t, actually.
- rsynnott 2y agoI kind of suspect that the techno-optimism that plagues the AI sector has metastasised into a more general toxic optimism. This is not the first AI-ish product which was clearly unsuitable for release, yet released anyway.
- JohnFen 2y agoPart of my (and everyone's) job is to engage in constructive criticism. Companies that discourage this are to be completely avoided as an employee, customer, or investor.