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How to build a DOA product: Humane AI Pin founders banned internal criticism

by dragonbonheur on 6/7/24, 3:47 AM with 6 comments

• by zer00eyz on 6/7/24, 3:53 AM

  I just learned today that one of the "core values" at ASML is that you should "challenge" things.

  This makes for a nice comparison.

• by jsemrau on 6/7/24, 5:39 AM

  That'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.

• by KaiMagnus on 6/7/24, 9:07 AM

  That 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.

• by rsynnott on 6/7/24, 12:28 PM

  I 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.

• by JohnFen on 6/7/24, 2:45 PM

  Part 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.