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shantocvtoday at 9:06 AM1 replyview on HN

This feels like the 2026 version of companies adding "blockchain" to their name in 2017 and watching the stock jump. The shoe business was real — they had a genuinely differentiated product with the merino wool. Pivoting from a physical product with brand recognition to "AI" when you have no obvious AI expertise or data moat is a tough sell beyond the initial hype pop.


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flextherulertoday at 1:22 PM

It honestly seems worse.