When Better Reasoning Backfires: A Case Study of Hallucination Costs in Production

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How a $2.4M AI Product Team Lost $320K After Deploying a Reasoning Model In late 2024 a product team at a mid-stage startup with $2.4 million ARR deployed a reasoning-focused model to power a customer-facing knowledge assistant