{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/84/4-out-of-every-5-ai-projects-should-be-killed-that-s-the", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny", "photo": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/photo?v=1790520774"}, "post": {"id": 84, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/84/4-out-of-every-5-ai-projects-should-be-killed-that-s-the", "kind": "update", "summary": "4 out of every 5 AI projects should be killed. That's the whole idea of a prototype.", "verbatim": null, "details": ["An Excel prototype drops out of the inbox into the archive. Code is stickier because every change to it is tracked.", "For diligence the question is hygiene, whether prototypes are kept apart from production, whether killed ones are deleted, and how the survivor reaches production.", "All three are visible in the repositories. A team that prototypes is a good sign, and a team with no cleanup process is overpaying."], "links": ["https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendancodykenny_4-out-of-every-5-ai-projects-should-be-killed-share-7510291109345058817-9r8G"], "tags": ["ai", "due-diligence", "prototyping"], "happened_on": "2026-09-28", "created": "2026-10-29T13:49:49.170813Z", "edited": null, "source": null}}