Manager: We (meaning you) need to do task A. How long will it take?

Me: Task A will take X days to do.

Manager: That seems awful long.

Me: How long do you think it should take?

Manager: It surely could not take any longer than Y days.

Me: Ok, it seems you have an answer to your question then.

Later:

Manager: It’s been Y days, why isn’t task A done yet?

  • kehet@sopuli.xyz
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    1 hour ago

    Usually:

    Manager: We (meaning you) need to do task A. How long will it take?

    Me: Task A will take X days to do.

    Manager: That seems awful long, are you sure you are using our choice of AI tool correctly? NVM I vibe code that myself

    Later:

    Manager: Here is my vibe coded single PR with features A, B, F, and some refactoring. I have no idea what it does, could you check that it works? I have no specs, documentation or tickets for any of this and I don’t have time to fix failing CI gates