before even writing this, I don't expect anyone to understand what I'm about to say, but I feel like I need to say it for my own sake. I've been working at my current company for over 7 years. and the first year or so of starting I built some software which pulls in data from some places, puts it into templates, and renders out configuration for network proxies. One of the good and bad things about the project is that I made it very extensible, and our team built plugins to extend it which have grown significantly in complexity over time. The project has carried my team pretty far and with fairly minimal issues along the way. but there are problems with it, in particular with its performance and efficiency. I know what the problems are, and how to fix them, but because we've extended the software in certain ways, it is impossible to solve the issues without untangling and undoing a lot of the foundations of the plugins that we have built for our team. One of the things that we built in our plugin is validation of the configuration, by using a python library to compile protocol buffers, and then to create objects from them which have type hints and good IDE support, and validate the parameters upon creation of an instance. however, the library that we used has bad support for caching and serialisation. there are some issues where an object is different when it is decoded compared to when it is encoded. the library is a beta version and the maintainer and author has not got enough time to progress things. in my spare time I've been trying to write a plugin for the protocol buffer compiler, to convert protocol buffers into something called a pydantic model, which is another class provided by a library that does validation. these have better support for serialisation and caching. The problem is that I'm finding it really hard to write this plugin. the compiler takes the tree of protocol buffers and sends them to the plugin for processing. I'm finding it hard to process the structure and produce the expected output, which involves recursing messages, nested messages, and fields which can also be messages. and this is only one small step in fixing the issues. if I can't get this working and in a reasonable amount of time, it's going to drag on forever. when I do get it working eventually, then I have another mountain of changes that I have to make to implement the actual fixes, and then test them, and then deploy them without breaking anything. it's kind of daunting to have this extremely long feedback loop, where I'm not sure if what I'm doing is actually going to work or have a good effect. and there have been many things I have attempted, which I was hopeful for, but the results ended up being garbage and it crushed me. it makes me think that I need to somehow make my mind more resilient to these kinds of failures, so that I can just work at a problem, and spend almost no time thinking about the setbacks, just moving forward and trying new things, unrelenting, until the problem is solved. but I don't really know how to do that. although my theory is that maybe the way to do this is to toughen the body as the mind and body are linked.

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