Robby Walker, who serves as a senior director at Apple, delivered the stark comments during an all-hands meeting for the Siri division, saying that the team was facing a bad period.

Robby Walker, a senior director who oversees Apple’s Siri division, reportedly told a recent meeting of the division that the company’s decision to promote Siri’s major AI upgrades before they were ready was a mistake, and made the delays especially “ugly”, Bloomberg reported.