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The Real Risk in AI Is Operational Fragility
The headlines worry about model behaviour. The boardrooms should worry about what happens when the pipeline breaks at 3am.
The EditorsApril 28, 20266 min read
Every serious AI deployment eventually runs into the same wall: the model is not the system. The system is the retries, the fallbacks, the evals, the rate limits, the queueing, the cost ceilings, and the humans who get paged when any of it drifts.
Operational fragility — not hallucination — is what quietly kills enterprise deployments. It is also where the next generation of defensibility will be earned.
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