[lubujackson]

This low effort AI shoveling reminds me of how they keep trying to make fridges that tell you when you need to buy milk or auto-buy milk. They have been pushing that idea for decades now, but it ignores the biggest issue that AI has laid bare: it sucks without accurate context.

What if I am going on vacation next week? What if I need extra milk for a dinner I am planning? What if my kid puts the milk in the fridge sideways and it no longer detects it?

"Easy fixes" to easy problems never work because they add mental load to tasks we already manage capably. Yes we no longer have to think about buying milk when it gets low, which was a stable pattern. But we replace it with a nondeterministic "milk state" that we need to be constantly vigilant about and manually adjust any time our routines are altered - exactly when we don't want to stack on more overhead.

AI is discretely useful, tremendously so, but big tech loves to default to umbrella solutions before there is a rich context to reasonably support it. The real world is messy.

General AI product tip: show your tool fixing a messy problem not a happy path problem. That's where AI is impactful!