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An LLM Outage at a 1.4GW Combined-Cycle Plant: What Actually Happened
Operators rely on a copilot for runbook lookup. The provider went down for 38 minutes. Here's how the control room handled it — and what we changed after.
Read articleCustomer-Service AI at a Mid-Sized Utility: Three Things We Got Wrong
Billing inquiries are easy until they aren't. The cases that broke our chatbot, ranked by how surprising they were.
Read articleVision QA Models on the Line: Why We Killed Three Out of Four
Production AI is mostly graveyards. The decision criteria we use now to decide what reaches the factory floor.
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