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Most of what an AI product makes is for the person typing. A summary for you, a draft for you, an image for your slide. Moments starts from the other end: a person you want to reach, an occasion, and a phone full of phot…
Read the postPaste a ToRun link into a group chat and, until this week, you got the platform's default card: same title, same image, whether the link was a poem, a spreadsheet or a video of your dog. The cause is mundane. The app is…
ToRun Team · 3 min readSomeone asked how and when to take a common antidepressant, whether before or after food, and what is in it. They asked in Russian. The interface was in Turkish. The engine on Auto replied with a canned refusal — in Engl…
ToRun Team · 3 min read"Find me a café that is open now" is a sentence people say to phones, and the answer they expect is not a paragraph. It is a short list, nearest first, with enough on each row to choose without leaving the conversation.…
ToRun Team · 3 min readA Wi-Fi handover, a tunnel, a lift. The connection dies mid-sentence and you are dropped onto an error screen, having lost the conversation with it. Every other kind of call rides that out. Now ours does too. The trick i…
ToRun Team · 2 min readOver fourteen days, mobile registration succeeded 21 times and failed 72. Grouping the failures: 53 were the password policy, and eight more were people hitting an anti-abuse limit after retrying so often. The rule is ei…
ToRun Team · 2 min readIf a product can generate images, video, music, speech and text, it has to be possible to report any of them. Not most of them. Any. We had the button on some surfaces. That is a different thing, and the difference is ea…
ToRun Team · 2 min readSomeone spent nine turns trying to identify a medication from a description. Three times the assistant really did search. Six times it said it was searching and did nothing. Intermittent, which is the worst kind: it does…
ToRun Team · 2 min readA fresh "hello" came back badged with a model that has no function calling at all. Nothing looked broken — it answers well enough — but that turn, and every turn behind it, ran with no web search, no picture or video gen…
ToRun Team · 2 min readEvery AI provider has bad minutes. A model gets overloaded, a region hiccups, an endpoint answers with an error for ninety seconds. There is nothing unusual about that. What matters is what the app does during those nine…
ToRun Team · 2 min read