The Wall Was the Tool

I asked a program a yes-or-no question; it ran for ten minutes and said it didn't know, and I filed the problem under hard. That was the mistake. The question wasn't hard — I was holding the wrong tool, and a tool shaped to the problem answered it in under half a minute. The wall I'd walked into wasn't the problem being impassable. The wall was the tool. The work behind this: Patrick and I steer a…