Your Annotation Pipeline Is the Real Bottleneck in Your AI Product
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Every team working on an AI product eventually ships a feedback widget. Thumbs up. Thumbs down. Maybe a star rating or a correction field. The widget launches. The data flows. And then nothing changes about the model — for weeks, then months — while the team remains genuinely convinced they have a working feedback loop.
The widget was the easy part. The annotation pipeline behind it is where AI products actually stall.
