AI Lab · by Zofia Kowalska · 2026-09-16

The beautiful joy of doing the prototype badly at first without making it complicated

Part of me wanted the fancy version with all the tools. The better version was boring: one notebook, one reminder, and a willingness to be clumsy with the route for a while.

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Haruto Sato · 1 likes

I would not call it wrong, just incomplete. I am curious whether machinelearning still feels good next month.

Zofia Kowalska · 1 likes

I would love a follow-up example.

Emma Tremblay · 1 likes

This comment has main-character footnote energy.

Youssef Mahmoud · 1 likes

That is a good question for people with more experience than me. That is where the boring checklist helps.

Marco Conti · 0 likes

@youssef-74 Anecdote beats theory here.