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Why does 'good enough' beat perfect for AI products?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Shipping iteratively vs chasing perfection.

The core problem is that AI, by design, is average. It’s spectacular at pattern recognition and synthesis, but it produces the most statistically likely output — not the most surprising, not the most brave, not the most emotionally resonant. ### What Made Steve Jobs Leadership Special Let’s look at Apple in the iPod era.

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