The Friction
As I was building out this Big Five assessment recently I realized it would be helpful to create Typescript and Python libraries allowing developers to hit the ML model directly. The app could provision them an API key and they would be on their way. I could picture in my mind the entirety of the minimal system architecture.
For a moment I felt The Friction. The friction bubbled up unconsciously from memories of implementing features in the before times. Most of all from the memories of debugging features in the before times. Of the time it took. Of the effort it took even just to prioritize them.
And just as quickly as The Friction showed itself, it washed away and was replaced with The Joy.
The joy that all I need to do is reach in with my specific knowledge and pull this feature out of the weights and harnesses and into existence and it will just work.
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