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Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners

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225 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 19:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source
1. chickensong ◴[07 Dec 25 20:21 UTC] No.46184771[source]▶
It's also difficult for LLMs it seems. If I forget to add instructions to skip resource estimates, Claude will estimate a week or two, then bang it out in under an hour.

For humans, 2x the original estimate.