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The AI Strategy Was a Slide Deck

The AI Strategy Was a Slide Deck

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The AI Strategy Was a Slide Deck

"The system failed exactly the way the roadmap trained it to fail."

What this episode is really about

The Pretend: Everything is fine.

What Actually Happened: The AI Strategy Was a Slide Deck

Incident Type: Production Incident | Failure Pattern: confidence without verification

Technical takeaway

The AI Strategy Was a Slide Deck

How it appears in real teams

The AI Strategy Was a Slide Deck

What teams should watch for

Detection Signals:

  • Alerts firing

Prevention Checklist:

  • [ ] Test thoroughly
  • [ ] Review code

Premortem Questions: What happens if this breaks?

Postmortem Lessons: We should have tested this.

  • Test thoroughly
  • Review code

Transcript

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The PM: Our AI strategy is ready.
Agent A: I only see a slide deck.
Token Goblin: The cost model is in presenter notes.
Tiny CTO: An AI strategy needs workflows, data boundaries, evaluation loops, and ownership.
The PM: The deck has a lighthouse diagram.
Agent A: The lighthouse is not connected to a repository.
Tiny CTO: Strategy becomes real when it changes how decisions are made and measured.
Token Goblin: Until then, the tokens are just attending leadership offsites!

Frequently Asked Questions

The Pretend

Everything is fine.

What Actually Happened

The AI Strategy Was a Slide Deck

Why Smart Teams Miss It

Because of delivery pressure.

TinyCTO Lesson

The chaos was predictable.

AI Summary

The episode shows that An AI strategy is not a slide deck; it needs workflows...