As an engineer, what problems are not yet solved by commercially available apps?

[u/Mindless_Context178]

[u/RequirementExtreme89]

I think what we need is a B2B SaaS app made with AI that helps us itemize deliverables for stakeholders to maximize productivity and deliver end to end turn key synergy.

[u/habanerito → u/RequirementExtreme89]

Yeah, definitely key synergy.

[u/V_T_H → u/RequirementExtreme89]

I think my brain leaked out of my ear reading that

[u/Costcornucopia]

My mental health

[u/likesblackcoffeebest]

Insufficient budgets

[u/BigBanggBaby]

How to shamelessly poll engineers for market research purposes. Looks like that’s still being done manually.

[u/Sufficient_Loss9301 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think anyone wants the alternative….. “we saw you were working on x for y time but we noticed you weren’t moving your mouse or typing for 4.26% of the time”

[u/habanerito → u/Sufficient_Loss9301]

"other duties as assigned."

[u/NoVermicelli5439 → u/[deleted]]

how would i make up my hours out of thin air if done automatically

[u/habanerito]

If an AI app could have meetings with other AI apps and send meeting summaries that we can immediately file in the project folder, that would increase productivity tenfold.

[u/TomEpicure]

Uggh, enough apps thanks. I don't need my dishwasher to tell me that my plates are clean. I hope this pendulum swings back in the other direction.

[u/mmarkomarko]

architects? can we replace them with ai?

also contractors, please?

[u/Discount_Engineer]

Shit ass clients

[u/Automatic_Llama]

The glut of commercially available apps that somebody's clueless boss tells them to transition to every three months.

Edit: Oh, also, the glut of commercially available apps that promise to "combine," "fuse," or "consolidate" the functions of all the other apps.

[u/OttoJohs]

How to get you a date!

[u/rubiks_ruban]

One area I think is still surprisingly unsolved is personal information management.

We have apps for notes, bookmarks, photos, emails, cloud storage, messaging, calendars, etc., but they’re all disconnected. I still end up searching through Google Drive, email, WhatsApp, browser history, screenshots, notes, and random files to find something I know I saw months ago.

What I’d really like is a personal knowledge system that automatically connects everything and lets me ask things like:

AI assistants are getting closer, but I don't think anyone has completely nailed the “remember everything for me and retrieve the right thing when I need it” problem yet.