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In cases where legacy tools would force teams to slog through, for example, 3,400 checks with 600 million errors, Vision AI’s clustering can reduce that effort to investigating just 381 groups—turning mountains into molehills and speeding debug time by at least 2x.
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
Everyone made a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Every other mountain in the Alaska Range looked like the proverbial molehill compared to the 20,000-foot behemoth.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
The attacks on Ramirez make a mountain out of a molehill, based on a questionable translation of her Spanish words.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
Everyone made a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Every other mountain in the Alaska Range looked like the proverbial molehill compared to the 20,000-foot behemoth.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
The attacks on Ramirez make a mountain out of a molehill, based on a questionable translation of her Spanish words.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Molehill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/molehill. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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molehill
noun
mole·hill
ˈmōl-ˌhil 
1
: a small mound or ridge of earth pushed up by a burrowing mole
2
: an unimportant obstacle or difficulty
made a mountain out of a molehill
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