Easy, you spec out doing it "conventionally" and pad with a reasonable first guess to do something unconventional.
Oh we need that in 2 weeks? And its about one weeks work the old fashioned way? Well try something else fun for a bit less than a week. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Sometimes you can do both in parallel. In the real world there's always wall clock time delays imposed by whatever. So when you're stuck waiting for whatever, learn as much as you can about XYZ till the main line is unblocked.
Oh we need that in 2 weeks? And its about one weeks work the old fashioned way? Well try something else fun for a bit less than a week. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Sometimes you can do both in parallel. In the real world there's always wall clock time delays imposed by whatever. So when you're stuck waiting for whatever, learn as much as you can about XYZ till the main line is unblocked.