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The product you ship is never the product you end up with.
You start with a clear thesis. Architecture, interfaces, roadmap. Then the market gets involved.
Users build rituals around features you considered minor. The codebase develops gravitational pulls — some futures become effortless, others prohibitively expensive. Somewhere between commit one and commit one thousand, the product stops being yours. It becomes itself.
This is telos — the inherent direction of a living thing. We treat software as pure engineering, as if plans determine outcomes. But products, like children, unfold according to their own nature. You can shape conditions. You cannot dictate results.
Founders and engineers must learn to listen — not to their original vision, but to what the product is trying to become.
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