It Will Only Take 2 Days

Time estimation Project management Technical debt Scope creep Developer life vs code Software development Project planning

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7 months ago 219,708 views 0 shares

It Will Only Take 2 Days

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The optimism-to-reality pipeline in software development is brutal. That moment when you convince yourself a new VS Code project will be quick and clean... then fast forward to a month later when your desk looks like someone electrocuted a rainbow. The "2-day estimate" is the biggest lie in tech, right up there with "the code is self-documenting" and "we'll refactor later." Those tangled wires are basically the physical manifestation of your codebase after scope creep, technical debt, and four desperate StackOverflow visits at 2 AM.

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