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"No, it's less effort than that"

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388 points replyifuagree | 1 comments | 21 Oct 23 04:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zeroCalories ◴[21 Oct 23 09:45 UTC] No.37965404[source]▶
Management has to push for lower estimates because developers have an incentive to overestimate to make life easier. The only situation where this isn't a problem is with eager junior devs, and devs that have direct skin in the game, such as at startups or a department about to be cut for being unprofitable.
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1. marcosdumay ◴[21 Oct 23 18:14 UTC] No.37969203[source]▶
> developers have an incentive to overestimate to make life easier

Have you ever seen developers overestimate their tasks? On what kind of alternative dimension this happens?

Developers are always deluded optimists that can't get realistic estimates no matter how much they inflate it.