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Plumbers are doing applied physics, not rendering a button on a webpage. Try telling a physicist to provide an "estimate" for the cost of proving the big bang theory. Why should you expect an estimate for fixing your leaky bathroom faucet?

Half this site is crapping its pants over being replaced by AI being able to do their jobs with a prompt yet it thinks their work is sooo novel and unknowable.

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If a computer scientist is doing completely routine tasks, they should be automating them, not estimating them every two weeks.

Most of software development is not computer science. Building a login page is a routine task.

Look man, even plumbing estimates are usually way off - but they know how long it takes to hook up two pipes that are 30' long for your new bathroom. They don't need to have meetings about it during the process. They don't need to talk to Home Depot about integrating with their broken API.

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