VER-XIV-0042
“My job is basically to oversell an AI product I know is half-broken.”
The pay is good and the deck is glossy, but you're being used to put a true face on a false claim, building under a machine's marketing instead of building with the truth. Every day you sell what you don't believe, a little more of your judgment goes numb. Eyes open: name what this is actually costing you.
Your Practice
- Write down plainly what the tool actually does and what you're being asked to claim it does.
- Find the line you won't cross, the specific lie, and decide it now, before you're mid-pitch.
- Push internally for honest claims. Sometimes the system bends when someone names the gap.
- If it won't bend, start the exit. A paycheck that costs you your judgment is overpriced.
The Architects
“The decision to make the Web an open system was necessary for it to be universal. You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”
Tim Berners-Lee, Frequently Asked Questions, personal page at w3.org (People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html), answer on 'cashing in' on the Web