Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Technical skills get you in the door, but Maya Mikhailov argues they won't stop you from breaking things if you don't understand why the rules exist. She's seen it repeatedly in banking, where AI companies recommend solutions that violate hard regulatory requirements around data, model types, and explainability because nobody bothered to learn the industry's constraints first. The people who save you from those mistakes aren't always the most senior engineers, they're the BAs and product managers who carry the institutional context. #shorts

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