106: Trust, temper, override: managing the AI you don't control
One CTO spent two weeks tearing frontier models out and ended up back where they started. Another spent a few days building a tested escape route for what actually mattered.
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The safe CTOs aren't the ones who trust their AI provider, and they aren't the ones tearing frontier models out of every workflow; they're the ones who've triaged their dependencies and tested a real escape route…
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