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Re:Ask HN: Why do software companies still insist on Estimat... by 3vidence on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:20PM (#33278617)
Even this can be really deceiving, maybe core APIs to crucial libraries get removed. As a response maybe the team either needs to migrate to a new library, or rebuild the APIs from scratch.

A situation like this can turn a "X days" task into an "X months" task. I know it is not super realistic but it represents a type of situation.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do software companies still insist on Estimat... by 121789 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:38PM (#33279623)
there's a big difference between "we can make a reasonable estimate based on X assumptions with Y dependencies, but there is a risk we are wrong" and "it will take an undefined amount of time, estimation is useless"
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