I've had the inverse happen to me. Would just give vague "yeah, working on that, expected to be done in XYZ <units of time>" and got a 'talking to' about not go

I've had the inverse happen to me. Would just give vague "yeah, working on that, expected to be done in XYZ <units of time>" and got a 'talking to' about not going high resolution. I've found a happy medium where I can gloss over implementation details and keep it short.