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by meemoo 3781 days ago
(I work for the Grid.)

The Grid deserves criticism, but please focus what we actually promised and are starting to deliver.

James Seibel claims that our product was marketed as a general purpose thinking machine:

> It isn’t going to replace software developers, and it isn’t going to allow you to build tech startups without an engineering team.

Nothing in our crowdfunding marketing, site, or video claims that we’re building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Before that line, he makes a fair summary of what the Grid was actually pitched to be:

> Essentially a glorified Wordpress that easily integrates with social media and e-commerce, that auto-resizes for various screen sizes, and provides beautiful design automatically. Or at least this is the end goal, if they can work out all the bugs.

The challenge and potential in that are immense.

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Sorry to do a hit piece, I just have never seen such a difference between what was promised and what was delivered. If you are just doing a wordpress clone and never ACTUALLY promised to use AI, why dress it up in all this AI nonsense? I seriously doubt you are auto resizing your CSS using neural networks.