Last Christmas, I thought so. I built a simple Letters to Santa app - write a letter, get an AI reply. ~200 people used it. Then my niece asked Santa for a "purple flying unicorn."

She got a text reply. She smiled. But something was missing.

That's when I realized: AI generation isn't magic. Presence is. A text reply can't hold space. It doesn't listen. It doesn't surprise you. So I scrapped everything and started over - this time building around 3 core Christmas memories:

The Letter Hope & Anticipation