What languages/toolkits are you working with that are less than 10 years old?
Anyhow, it seems to me like it is working. It's just working better for the really old stuff because:
- there has been more time for training data to accumulate
- some of it predates the trend of monetizing data, so there was less hoarding and more sharing
It may be that the hard slow way is the only way to get good results. If the modern trends re: products don't have the longevity/community to benefit from it, maybe we should fix that.
