From the parent post, which describes this far more elegantly, but this made me think of how programming a product is sometimes very similar. You are told to build a feature, and you start by exploring how to go about it, there’s a bunch of googling, a whole lot of visits to Stack Overflow, a lot of exploration around the codebase, until you have a concept.

The only difference is, from there it’s hardly a straight line. Similar yes, but oh so different.

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