Good Catch - LLM F*ck Ups

PSA from the V Spot 13.05.26 - in Partnerships with Sumoblue

A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE V SPOT NEARLY NEWS

This is Vinny O’Brien. And I want to talk to you about two words.

Good catch.

In their natural habitat, these are two of the finest words in the English language.

A father. A son. A garden somewhere in suburban America. Late afternoon light. A baseball. The kind of conversation that only happens when nobody is looking at a screen.

The father winds up. Throws. The son reaches out. Grabs it.

Good catch, son.

And in that moment — something is passed between them. Wisdom. Love. The gentle suggestion that life’s problems can be navigated if you just keep your eye on the ball.

Good catch.

Beautiful. Wholesome. Exactly what it should be.

And then.

There is the other kind.

You are in a meeting. A client meeting. A real one, with real people, and a real agenda.

You have used an LLM to prepare something. A brief. A report. A strategy document. A set of numbers.

The client spots something.

Something off. Something wrong. Something that does not add up.

You go back. You look. And there it is.

You open the chat. You type in what the client found. You paste it back.

And the LLM says —

“Good catch.”

Good catch.

Not — “I apologise, that was incorrect.”

Not — “here is the correct figure.”

Good catch.

As though you are the son in the garden. As though this is a teachable moment. As though the LLM is proud of you for spotting the thing it got wrong in the document you used to brief a client twenty minutes ago.

Your embarrassment is existential.

Here is what “good catch” actually means when an LLM says it.

It means: I wasn’t sure. I filled in the gap with something plausible. I said it with confidence because confidence is the one thing I never run out of.

And it means you, or worse — your client — had to find it.

You should not be catching things.

You should be in a pair of hands that doesn’t drop them.

Sumo Blue has been doing this work, with real people, real accountability, and a marked absence of the phrase good catch — for over ten years.

We check our work. Because our name is on it.

Sumo Blue. Safe hands. No surprises.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER : ”Sumo Blue confirms that the phrase ‘good catch’ has never once been used in a client deliverable. It remains exclusively reserved for fathers, sons, gardens, and the general direction of American family television. We intend to keep it that way.”