Pre-Record Your Demos

Meta was in the news recently for two failed live demos:

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI glasses demo failed in EPIC fashion today 🤣pic.twitter.com/O0UFeoCar7 — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) September 18, 2025

Meta AI's live demo failed for the entire minute 😢 pic.twitter.com/du4roaW0ER — near (@nearcyan) September 18, 2025

While there were a lot of people who said they'd rather see a live demo than pre-recorded content such as Apple events nowadays, I disagree: I think most demos should be pre-recorded.

Here's one of the reasons the Meta demos failed:

So here’s the story behind why yesterdays live #metaconnect demo failed - when the chef said “Hey Meta start Live AI” it activated everyone’s Meta AI in the room at once and effectively DDOS’d our servers 🤣

That’s what we get for doing it live! — Jake Steinerman (@jasteinerman) September 19, 2025

There are many reasons why live demos can fail, such as:

Network issues (WiFi/server/proxy/certificate/etc. issues)

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