Honestly I thought it was quite prescient when this guy wrote: "Hey inventor, I need a drone that will pick up mice (but not other animals), locate my ex-girlf

Honestly I thought it was quite prescient when this guy wrote: "Hey inventor, I need a drone that will pick up mice (but not other animals), locate my ex-girlfriend and drop them on her head. Give me a budget and a time estimate." For a good amount of software (excluding boilerplate, plumbing e-commerce-type software) - this is what it's all about. I had a long argument with an uncle of mine who's getting into the field of software project management. I get the sense that among the project management types, there's a sense that software can be constructed by building gantt charts, costing spreadsheets, and "staff months". They claim computer science degrees "don't teach the practical stuff" and it's as if they are completely unaware that there lurk hard problems.