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[โ€“] Knusper@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a pessimistic (i.e. often times realistic) dev, I can tell you, management does not want to hear that either...

[โ€“] float@burggit.moe 4 points 1 year ago

Yes. I tell them the long estimate and they push me toward the optimistic estimate. And then it ends up being what I said before. Or 3x that.