The pairing engine in Hydrolyze illustrates a self-reinforcing data flywheel: more recorded swim times produce tighter prediction confidence, which reduces manual coach reassigns, which builds trust, which drives more usage, which produces more data. The key architectural choice was wiring the cost function to read from live predictor output rather than static personal-best snapshots, so the flywheel actually compounds session-over-session rather than degrading to a lookup table.
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