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Good AI Task – a tool for asking AI what it can and can't do

Good AI Task – a tool for asking AI what it can and can't do

by jmt710·Apr 25, 2026·6 points·4 comments
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AI Analysis

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Five-dimension framework tells you when AI will fail before you waste hours prompting.

Strengths
  • •Meta-evaluation approach (AI assessing AI tasks) is genuinely novel angle
  • •Public library of evaluated tasks builds collective knowledge over time
  • •Testing known failures reveals how the system explains its own limitations
Weaknesses
  • •Single-page utility risks feeling too simple for complex enterprise decisions
  • •Five dimensions may not capture all edge cases for specialized domains
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

People deciding whether to use AI for specific tasks

Post Description

Describe a task, and AI will give you a breakdown of whether it can do your task well, poorly, or somewhere in between. I built it mostly because I kept getting asked "what is AI even good for" and fumbling the answer.

The most fun use is testing it on things you already know it can't do and seeing how it explains why it can't be done.

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