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When AI sounds smart but has nothing real to reason over. A pet-tech case study in reference frames, longitudinal modeling, and missing data.
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Most AI products add a fluent interface before fixing the data model. The result: confident answers over the wrong structure. This is the LLM Veneer. A pet-tech case study in why data architecture matters more than conversational fluency.