Framework authors must build real

Short summary

Framework and library authors should build and maintain real projects alongside their libraries rather than relying solely on examples and documentation. Real projects expose design assumptions, API awkwardness, and workflow friction that examples never reveal, forcing frameworks to improve in ways planning sessions cannot predict. When framework authors are daily users of their own software, they make better architectural decisions and drive more meaningful improvements than any planning session possibly could.

• •Examples demonstrate the happy path; real projects expose actual friction and edge cases
• •Framework authors should be daily customers of their own software to align with user needs
• •Real-project-driven iteration yields better improvements than top-down feature planning

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