True Senior Engineers Answer

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Oh, the DIVINE WISDOM of senior engineers! When you dare ask them for a simple deadline, they transform into mystical fortune tellers who speak only in riddles and philosophical paradoxes. "The answer will reveal itself" – translation: "Bold of you to assume time is linear, junior." They've reached such an enlightened state of engineering consciousness that they no longer operate on mortal concepts like "dates" or "commitments." Instead, they've ascended to a realm where deadlines exist in a quantum superposition of "maybe Tuesday" and "when the stars align." The best part? They're not even wrong! After years of watching "two-week projects" turn into six-month odysseys, they've learned that giving ANY specific date is basically signing a blood oath with the demo gods. So they just... don't. Truly, this is the wisdom that comes with surviving a thousand production incidents.

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