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by ambicapter 185 days ago
I don’t understand how running into difficulties when trying to solve a problem can be interpreted as “[taking] away from the actual problem”.
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In our case if we're spending a lot of time on something that doesn't improve the product, it just takes away from the product. Like if we put 800 engineering hours into sensor fusion and lidar when the end product doesn't become materially better, we could have placed those 800 hours towards something else which makes the end product better.

It's not that we ran into problems, it's that the tech didn't deliver what we hoped when we could have used the time to build something better.