It's remarkable how much of my soul has been obliterated[1] in the past week programming for Amazon's Alexa platform:

* Crappy documentation
* Poor debugging feedback
* Non-deterministic behavior when things are "working"

Rather than writing useful business logic, I'm stuck in the code-equivalent of poking a gelatinous blob to see how it will react it I poke it some place or other.

[1] No worries, it'll grow back.

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