What is the talk "The Gap Between The Claim And The Real Thing" about?

A talk by Viktor Grant on technology optimization: how to find the space between what a system claims and what it does.

Viktor Grant, the founder and engineer of Earthgrid.

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A talk by Viktor Grant

The Gap Between The Claim And The Real Thing

Every system has two versions of itself.

The one in the brochure, and the real one.

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What I Say

I live in the space between the two.

I test a system myself before I believe it.
Then I build the tool that works in that gap.

It started on an Apple II and it has not changed.
Search, recommendations, streaming, AI. The same habit.

You do not need to be an engineer.
You need to ask what it does, not what it says.

Five eras, one pattern Where I learned to look for the gap.

In the room

What People Leave With

Three questions that find the gap in any tool you pay for.
A way to test a claim in an afternoon.
The courage to say what your own testing found.

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Questions I Would Bring

Which promise did you believe too long?
How would you test it today?
What did you build, or buy, to close the gap?

A good question beats a prepared speech.

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How This Fits Your Program

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I name one claim and test it, out loud.

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Each person brings a tool. We find its gap.

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Thirty years, one pattern, and three questions to keep.

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