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Handling the Live Demo (and Recovery)
AI demos fail in front of customers: the model hallucinates, a service times out, an edge case breaks. The skill is composure and recovery, acknowledging it honestly without panicking, redirecting to what works, and turning a failure into a credibility moment by showing you understand why it happened and how production handles it. Applied-AI interviews probe it because customer-facing engineers demo probabilistic systems that will sometimes misbehave, and grace under that pressure is a distinguishing trait.
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