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I think part of the problem is that it's technically correct to say "my product does X" even if it does X extremely poorly. I'm not sure if this can be changed because any line for "does-X vs does-not-adequately-do-X" is going to necessarily be subjective.

So personally I think the problem is that people see "this product does X" and interpret that to mean that it does X well. I don't think it's necessarily bad that we're seeing an explosion of AI tools that are a bit underwhelming if people understood it as such -- we're on, after all, a site with a heavy startup focus and saying "your product doesn't do everything that I want" is a bit antithetical to that.

But yeah specifically for this one there are arguments that "X is not even possible, especially not with this approach" so it's a bit more egregious.



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