me: ughhhh this rewrite is gonna take forever, it's such a change from how we currently do things, gonna need new systems and everything. boooo
me, one hour later: MR's up. that ended up being easy actually
MORAL: software estimation is Difficult

me: ughhhh this rewrite is gonna take forever, it's such a change from how we currently do things, gonna need new systems and everything. boooo
me, one hour later: MR's up. that ended up being easy actually
MORAL: software estimation is Difficult
yesterday it took me less time to write an ai from scratch than it did for me to figure out how to find the intersection of a circle and a line
2 hours if it works the first time, 2 days if it doesn’t, 2 weeks if shit goes sideways. It’s one of those 3 usuallu
Me: This is pretty simple, should be done by lunchtime.
Me, one week later: I think I've got the last of the weird pervasive changes that knock on to every other part of the application fixed, hoping to have a PR ready by lunchtime.