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When a developer says "That looks/sounds easy; I could knock that up in a weekend!" about a project, they have to be especially more careful about who is within
by shrikant 13y ago
When a developer says "That looks/sounds easy; I could knock that up in a weekend!" about a project, they have to be especially more careful about who is within earshot.
Heaven forfend a manager type gets a whiff of an over-optimistic estimate -- that's a great recipe for a completely avoidable death-march.
- lukifer 13y agoI use such off-the-cuff estimates as red flags indicating developers who have likely never built anything scratch; the number of 10x devs who could do such projects "in a weekend" are small, and even then, they would still probably not make such claims with certainty.