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Smoke test

Questions to ask a software vendor in a live meeting, to tell whether they understand what they are selling you or just had an AI generate it.

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How it works

Using AI to build software is fine. The risk is a vendor who asks the AI for the solution instead of designing it, and cannot explain, secure or maintain what they deliver.

Every question comes with a follow-up. A prepared or generated answer survives the first question. A "why?" about their own system, asked live, rarely survives.

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