"Done."
Just as Han Luyi hung up, Su Niannian walked over.
"Done with what?"
"The beta-user invitations. I asked Liang Yu for the non-technical users who showed interest in Zone B at the last expo. Azure Peak Ecology will send them out and route the replies to us."
"I'll finish the copy this week, and we'll send it out next Monday," Han Luyi added.
Su Niannian's eyes widened. "Send out what?"
"Open Things beta invitations."
"Open Things?" Su Niannian said. "You mean the Open Things that doesn't even have a complete user flow, whose interface you slapped together overnight?"
"Let the users—"
"What are you letting them test?" Su Niannian opened a page on her laptop. "They enter a requirement and click 'Generate,' it spins three times and says, 'Server busy. Please try again later.' Click again, and a blank canvas pops up with one line in the middle: Connecting to AI assistant. There isn't even a progress bar. How are users supposed to know whether it's frozen or still running?"
She turned the screen toward Han Luyi. "The onboarding page is still placeholder text: 'Exciting features coming soon.' If you send this out, people will open it, take one look, close it, and never come back."
"It's a beta test—"
"A beta test is still a first impression." Su Niannian pushed her chair back. "You know Apple Maps, right?"
Han Luyi knew Su Niannian was an Apple fan. He wasn't.
"When iOS 6 launched in 2012, Apple kicked out Google Maps and replaced it with its own maps app. Then the navigation led people into rivers, satellite images twisted like pretzels, and the 3D model of the Brooklyn Bridge looked like crumpled tinfoil. Cook had to publicly apologize." Su Niannian raised one finger. "Fourteen years later, if you ask