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Get Started
AI Programming Agile
2 months ago 21.1M views 0 shares
Get Started
Claude (the AI assistant) gives you a reasonable, data-driven estimate: 3 months for the project. Sounds professional, right? But your brain immediately goes into denial mode and slaps that estimate away like it's personally offensive. "Three months? I'm built different. I'll have this done by Tuesday." Spoiler alert: It takes 6 months, you rewrote it twice, and you're still fixing bugs from the "quick MVP" you rushed out in week one. But sure, reject that AI wisdom and trust your caffeine-fueled optimism instead. The planning fallacy is real, folks. Even when artificial intelligence tries to save you from yourself, hubris prevails.

Roll Three D100 For Story Points
Agile Programming Devops
1 year ago 322.8K views 0 shares
Roll Three D100 For Story Points
Task estimation in software development is basically just high-stakes gambling with your career. "Shouldn't take long" is the biggest lie in tech, right after "we value work-life balance." The range between "an hour and 11 months" perfectly captures that moment when you know the requirements are vague, the codebase is a nightmare, and three different managers are asking for status updates. Meanwhile, the product owner is already telling clients it'll be done by Friday. Pure fiction, just like those story points we assign in sprint planning.

The Last 10 Percent Of 100 Percent
Programming Agile Debugging
1 year ago 471.8K views 0 shares
The Last 10 Percent Of 100 Percent
The AUDACITY of developer time estimates! 💅 First we're all rainbow-haired confidence: "EOD? EASY PEASY!" Then reality slaps us with clown makeup as our estimates spiral from "just a week" to "umm, two weeks?" until finally we're standing there bare-faced, dead inside, admitting "this monstrosity needs TWO MONTHS." The makeup removal process is basically just our souls leaving our bodies with each passing deadline. It's the software development circle of life - start as a unicorn, end as a corpse. Hofstadter's Law in full technicolor glory!

More People Can't Always Deliver Faster
Programming Agile Devops
1 year ago 274.8K views 0 shares
More People Can't Always Deliver Faster
The classic project management fallacy, illustrated with surgical precision. Just because nine women can't deliver a baby in one month doesn't stop project managers from thinking nine developers can deliver a project nine times faster. It's the same energy as believing you can dig a hole faster by hiring people who've never seen a shovel. Brooks' Law sends its regards - adding more people to a late project just makes it later. Next up: Project Manager discovers that two pizzas don't feed twenty people in half the time!