It Is Happening Again

Coding struggles Technical debt Developer life Software development Bug fixing Tech problems Time estimation

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It Is Happening Again

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The eternal developer time estimation paradox strikes again. You start with that confident "I'll knock this out before lunch" energy, only to find yourself five hours later questioning your entire career choice and wondering if you should've just become a goat farmer instead. That "quick fix" turned into a rabbit hole of dependency hell, undocumented APIs, and Stack Overflow threads from 2013 that end with "nevermind, I figured it out" with zero explanation. Time estimation in software is basically astrology but with more caffeine and self-loathing.

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