Behind The Build
Why we never let the AI pick the year
Say 'the 5th of January' and a model will happily add a year. We stopped it, and made the app show you whenever a year was assumed.
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Behind The Build
The decisions behind the product, including the ones we got wrong first.
Behind The BuildSaying three things at once should not cost you three
We priced our AI usage per extracted item, then reversed it. The reason was not cost. It was that the price could not be quoted in advance.
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Behind The BuildWe wrote a rule against upgrade banners, then broke it
A decision record that argued against nagging users, the ruling that overturned it, and what we kept from the argument we lost.
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