Two decades as a programmer hasn't made…

Two decades as a programmer hasn't made me any better at estimating how long it'll take me to write software, but it's made me MUCH better at estimating how long other things will take. I'm a master at intuitively timing multiple dishes to finish simultaneously, for example.

1.3k likes · February 22, 2024 at 11:28 PM UTC

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