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April 22, 2025

The Great AI Disconnect: What Leaders See vs What Engineers Face

It's a Cycle of Hype - Hope - Repeat

  • 🧠 The CEO was sold a “miracle platform” — “It’ll boost your existing models by 90%!”
  • 📊 The VP hears, “It integrates 90+ data sources seamlessly!”
  • 🧩 The Senior Manager is told, “Plug-and-play pipelines. Just flip a switch!”
  • 🧑‍💻 The Engineers? They discover broken schemas, data gaps, and a model that works on benchmarked datasets only

When results don’t match the pitch:

  • The CEO is promised: “50% discount next cycle!”
  • The VP gets: “Let’s collaborate and fix it.”
  • The manager burns out.
  • The engineers build workarounds.

And the narrative? Reboots.

🎢 Rinse. Hype. Repeat.



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