Most of the AI software YC companies are coming out with doesn't work

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1 points by somethingtoday 92 days ago

As many of you here, I always anticipate and try to see what's coming out from YC companies. I follow https://www.linkedin.com/school/y-combinator/posts/ to see the latest and greatest.

Except what I'm finding is that I am constantly being disappointed and frustrated. The software doesn't deliver the promise. And sometimes I wonder how these companies raised money. Some real examples below in just the last week, without mentioning their names:

1. UGC video creator: Workflows I don't understand, and errors after submitting a video for them to clone. 2. Browser automation: Again, unnatural workflows, constant errors, and their support team keeps replying with "Oh you just have to use that other page and copy the ID from X with Y and we will get back to you about that other bug" 3. QA automation: Sent me a link to get setup. Didn't work - immediate errors. 4. AI Identity startup: Constant errors in their playground.

What YC companies in the AI space have you used in the last months that have truly wow-ed you?

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_wire_ 92 days ago

Enjoyed that final sentence.

Truly "wow-ed"... Or worked at all?

> "Oh you just have to use that other page and copy the ID from X with Y and we will get back to you about that other bug"

There was a little-known programming language in the early 80s called Z that accepted any input as a syntactically valid program, so the programmer's job was simply debugging.

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