> Honestly, software development is not as complex as people like to believe and there aren't as many unknowable elements as people like to think, and in my opi

> Honestly, software development is not as complex as people like to believe and there aren't as many unknowable elements as people like to think, and in my opinion this line of thinking is just an excuse to not actually think about what needs to be done to complete a task. Funny, I've been hearing this constantly over the 24 years of my professional experience as a software developer and I've yet to see it proven true. Unless we're talking about toy examples like Hello World, developing quality software is devilishly complicated and, in my opinion, downplaying this complexity as an "excuse" is in itself an excuse to compromise quality. EDIT: Fixed a few words my phone auto-"corrected" for me.