> It's a rough ordering of relative complexity of different tasks, which is something programmers can do. Yeah, when put as an estimate of effort or complexity

> It's a rough ordering of relative complexity of different tasks, which is something programmers can do. Yeah, when put as an estimate of effort or complexity, we can be good at estimating that. But that isn't how it was put. > so someone will somehow attempt to turn them into time estimates. It works until it doesn't. I would estimate manually entering data as "pretty easy" but it won't be done in a day no matter how much you pay me. I can only type so fast. There are many tasks that are easy but take a really long time, and many complex tasks that take a very short amount of time.