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Medium / Alli Shultes / Mar 30, 2018
“For example, a good product that is designed to automatically generate transcripts for journalists is likely to only include features that help its users achieve that end goal. A feature that that might allow the generation of subtitles from the transcripts would be considered superfluous to the end product. However, generating subtitles or auto-exporting segments of audio may later form the basis of a new product. Because you’ve eliminated that capability from the scope of the initial product, you’ve set back future experiments.”
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