Have you ever experienced the curse of the product demo — when every feature and function worked perfectly until you tried showing them to an audience? Let me hear your best (or maybe worst) story.

While we were doing a demo / setup of some Open AI Service APIs via Azure the other day, we were using a fairly innocent prompt to demonstrate how it can generate the answer and also translate it at the same time. We missed a minor bit in the prompt and instead of responding back with the high quality translation we were expecting, ChatGPT responded by sarcastically saying "Yeah, OK..", swearing at us (the f-word) and then *pretended* to speak in French. During a live, and recorded, demo meant to be showing how effective it is.
Was a great learning point, to be fair.

back in the day Novell did a demo on stage in Belfast of their latest server OS. 11 speakers went on stage and 11 times the demos failed due to tech or broadband issues.  It was sooooo bad that you wanted it to work for them but sadly not.  Two weeks later I moved the company to Microsoft.  To this day I cringe for the speakers who were super professionals who had a bad day.