Maintaining someone else's code, I'm equal parts mind reader, software archeologist, detective (forensics), and grumpy old man. When I've had to maintain ML stu

Maintaining someone else's code, I'm equal parts mind reader, software archeologist, detective (forensics), and grumpy old man. When I've had to maintain ML stuff, I spent most of my time wrestling with the tools and chaotic mutant one-off instances of "data pipelines", contorting myself into the mindset of the creators. So, ya, "empathy" works for me. FWIW, I found the tools like PyTorch, Spark, and such to be laughable bad. I pity the people who have to do this work on the daily. Jupyter is cool though.