# The Pivot: When AI Ideas Crash

*Strip 18 — from "Future Shock — AI vs Real Life", a webcomic by Abeer & Amaara.*

**Description:** Abeer pitches an AI tutoring app; a search shows 10,000 similar apps already exist; Amaara, deadpan: "Congratulations. You invented homework."
**Tags:** startups

## Transcript

Panel 1 — Abeer, excited: "Idea: AI tutoring app!"
Panel 2 — Reality: "10,000 similar apps exist."
Panel 3 — Amaara, deadpan: "Congratulations. You invented homework."

## Director's Commentary

- **Amaara:** Every great startup idea is just homework with a waitlist.
- **Abeer:** Ten thousand competitors and I hadn't written a line of code. Efficient, really.

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