The AI pilots that succeed are the boring ones — impressive demos never leave the demo stage
Dapper-Tale-4021 · reddit · 2026-10-09
A Reddit observer of AI pilots argues that every impressive demo of the past two years was something companies couldn't deploy, while production deployments are ticket routing, document classification, and invoice extraction. The selection effect: impressive use cases are exactly those where failure is expensive, so they stay in pilot forever, while boring ones ship because nobody panics at 10% error rates. Public perception of AI is being shaped by demos that never leave the stage.
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