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Before you embark on building a product that uses Machine <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/learning" target="_blank">learning</a>, ask yourself, are you building a product around a model or designing an experience that happens to use a model. While these might feel like a chicken or an egg dichotomy, the answer can significantly change the validity of your product. From my experience building a product around a model is often fraught with complications, reductions in scope or performance, and an end result that looks and feels very different than the original concept. However, I’ve found when you design a product or experience that happens to achieve its effect by using a model it has routinely resulted in better outcomes across the board.