# Every automatic step needs a manual shove

- Category: product
- Author: Titus Nicolae (https://indie.md/people/titus-nicolae/)
- Source: https://indie.md/events/indie-tm-14-timisoara-august-2026/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/ship-a-manual-fallback-beside-the-model/

HausJam estimates a floor, then places furniture on it, and the estimate is sometimes wrong enough that a sofa floats or sits in the aisle. The product's answer is not a better apology, it is a fallback: rotate the piece by hand, push it to the wall, finish the hidden chair legs the camera never saw. Titus treated that pair, model plus shove, as the design, not as a temporary shame until the model is perfect. Vision products fail in public, in the screenshot the user was about to send to a partner, and a slider that corrects the lie is the difference between a demo and a tool. If your pipeline infers the world from a photo, budget the correction UI in the same sprint as the inference. Users forgive an estimate they can fix. They do not forgive a beautiful room they cannot trust.