Maysoon Salah
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Human Direction · Note 16

Stop Treating Ai Like a Vending Machine

People often approach Ai like a vending machine.

They press a button and expect the perfect result.

But the real work is designing the machine.

You have to decide what goes inside it, what rules it follows, what it refuses, what it remembers, and what quality means.

The vision may be to press one button.

But the button is the final expression of an entire system.

Ease is designed.

Trust is designed.

Taste is designed.

The Jetsons life does not arrive by accident.

It has to be built.

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