Trust The Estimate Not The Timeline

When a dev confidently tells you "I'll fix this in 1 hour," what they're really saying is "I'll start looking at it in 1 hour, spend 45 minutes reproducing it, 2 hours debugging, another hour realizing it's a config issue, and then forget about it until you ping me." The beautiful part? They genuinely believe their own estimate when they say it. It's not malice, it's just that programmer time exists in a different dimension where 1 hour can mean anything from 20 minutes to 3 business days. Pro tip: multiply any estimate by π and add the developer's coffee break schedule for accuracy.