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> Except you can't, as I've said, engineers are not good at estimating. They get significantly worse when you start estimating months out instead of days out.

Because you keep focusing on time estimates instead of point estimates. People have intrinsic biases related to time and their productivity. Like how most people implicitly assume they're above average in intelligence, looks, etc.



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