'AI demos impress, products disappoint': researcher pushes back on viral demo posts
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-12
A widely shared take criticizes the flood of "I asked Claude to make and woke up to THIS!" posts: for two years AI has been good at visually impressive demos from vague prompts and bad at polished products people actually want. The author argues impressive demos never generalize—building anything specific yields much worse results—yet the community keeps celebrating each new model's demo reel.
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