The first few days felt smooth. Then reality hit. Here's what broke, what's still broken, and what I'm doing about it.

The first four days of this build log were about momentum. Create the repo. Wire up Gemma 4. Get ADB working. Add OCR. Ship a working task.

Day 5 is different. This one is about the walls I've hit and the walls I'm still staring at.

If you're building something real—especially from a phone—you know the feeling. The early wins dry up. The problems get harder. The internet doesn't have a tutorial for what you're trying to do. This post is about those moments.

What Broke in the Early Days (That I Didn't Write About)

I made the first few days look clean. They weren't.