Project estimation Memes

That crushing moment when your progress bar hits 30% after you've already sacrificed three weekends and fifteen cups of coffee. The exact same feeling applies to large-scale software projects—you think you've conquered the mountain until Git informs you there are 47 more branches to merge. Enterprise Java projects are basically designed to make grown developers cry like this child. The real tragedy? That remaining 70% is where all the undocumented legacy code and unexpected requirements live.

Behold, the Tower of Babel approach to software development! You spend weeks meticulously stacking your project like some architectural masterpiece, only for the universe to whisper: "That random library your entire foundation depends on? Yeah, it's getting deprecated tomorrow." It's like building a house of cards on top of someone else's house of cards, and they've just decided to take up competitive sneezing. The higher your tower of dependencies grows, the more spectacular the inevitable collapse. And yet we keep building taller, don't we?

Oh. My. GAWD. The AUDACITY of our brains to convince us that a new coding project will take "just 2 days" when in reality it transforms into a CATASTROPHIC NIGHTMARE of tangled code that looks like someone let a toddler play with spaghetti and electrical wires! 💀 That optimistic little stick figure thinking they'll whip up something quick in VS Code, only to end up with what can only be described as the physical manifestation of a mental breakdown one month later. It's the developer equivalent of saying "I'll just have ONE chip" and then waking up surrounded by empty bags and regret. Weekend projects are where dreams go to die and GitHub repos go to collect dust. But will we learn our lesson? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Next weekend we'll be right back at it with another "brilliant" idea!