Deploy and Abandon

Deploy and Abandon — The Costliest Misconception in AI Agent Projects

My boss graded my Critic design a B, reasoning: 'this is for Apple-scale companies, we're not Apple.' That sentence is the single most expensive misconception in AI Agent adoption. Five minutes to see through the six hollow spots in a 'deploy and abandon' proposal; ten minutes to walk into a vendor review armed with four questions they can't answer.