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#AI Great Leap Forward

Vintage backyard furnace glowing red, peasants forging pig iron — metaphor for rushed corporate AI projects
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Corporate AI's Great Leap Forward: Backyard Furnaces, Pig Iron, and Rotting Crops

What if your AI transformation is just 1958 China redux: flashy outputs from amateur forges, while the core product starves? Companies chase conviction over competence, birthing pig iron disguised as steel.

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