The most beautiful lie in software development: "I'll fix this bug in an hour." Sure, buddy. The first panel shows the hopeful optimism we all start with—pure delusion in its natural habitat. The second panel reveals the harsh reality that six hours later, you're still debugging the same issue while your project manager keeps checking in. That "simple fix" turned into a rabbit hole of dependency issues, undocumented edge cases, and questioning your entire career choice. Time estimation in programming follows its own non-Euclidean geometry where 1 hour = ∞.
If A Programmer Says One Hour, Don't Set A Timer
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