Cal.com Is Reviving the AI Booking Assistant It Killed Over Time Zones

A 2023 failure is getting a second life as models improve — a small, honest case study in which AI problems age out rather than get solved head-on.

Here is a useful antidote to both the hype and the doom. According to @richeholmes, Cal.com killed its early AI booking assistant because it could not reliably handle time zones — a mundane but deal-breaking failure for scheduling software. Now the company is bringing it back, reasoning that the underlying models have improved enough to make it viable.

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