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This seems like exactly the type of problem human-written filtering systems fall into as well.

human-written filtering systems don't brag about having a solution for a problem in 2 minutes and fail.

This sounds more like a complaint about the human author, than the system itself.

Not at all, simonw's work is fantastic. But it was a funny #fail.

It got 80% of the problem solved for OP, and the remaining 20% can be fixed by humans afterwards. Prompt early, prompt often (?)