What's the thing you keep working around instead of fixing?
What's the thing you keep working around instead of fixing?
I've got a 22-hour build window this week and four themes to pick from. Rather than invent a problem, I'd rather build something an actual practitioner is annoyed by. The themes:
- UX in AI — how people interact with, trust, correct, or supervise AI systems
- Data for AI — pipelines, quality, lineage, labelling, retrieval
- Security & governance at scale — access, audit, policy enforcement across many systems or agents
- Physical AI — robotics, simulation, digital twins
What I'm asking: in whichever of those you actually work in, what's the recurring annoyance you've built a hacky workaround for and never properly solved? The thing that costs you 20 minutes a week, or that you've explained to three different new hires.
Not looking for startup ideas or moonshots. Looking for small, specific, real. Bonus if you've already tried something and it didn't work — I'd like to know why.
I'll post back with what I build and whether it worked, including if it didn't.
u/EmphasisOne9932 — 2 days ago