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For the past three years, my role on both the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/watson-prototypes" target="_blank">Watson Prototypes</a> and Cognitive Environments teams has largely been to make applications that showcase Watson capabilities. We worked on projects everywhere on the spectrum between pure demo and real problem-solving application. Over time, we developed a pattern to approaching each new project that shaved maybe 1–2 weeks of <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/development" target="_blank">development</a> time per engagement, and helped cement a methodology critical to working with probabilistic systems.