The Post-Editing Paradox: Why Better AI Made Human Review More Critical | Kincaid Day | EP 238

The Post-Editing Paradox: Why Better AI Made Human Review More Critical | Kincaid Day | EP 238

Author: Robin Ayoub June 23, 2026 Duration: 1:03:55
Kincaid Day, VP of Global Strategy and Innovation at Welocalize, joins Robin Ayoub to unpack 12 months of agentic translation running in live enterprise production. The counterintuitive headline: better AI output made human review more important, not less. Kincaid explains how Opal works, why fluent AI output is actually harder to review, how the model garden approach keeps quality benchmarked continuously, and why Welocalize embedded Opal inside the Phrase Platform as a deliberate bet on open ecosystems over walled gardens.

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