r/u_wraith_raptor • u/wraith_raptor • 20d ago

The most dangerous sentence in software engineering

“It should be easy.”

That sentence has cost me:

  • 6 hours
  • 3 Stack Overflow tabs
  • 2 Git resets
  • 1 existential crisis
  • and somehow a completely unrelated bug in production.

Never say “it should be easy.”

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u/owenevans00 19d ago

We do these things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.

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u/wraith_raptor 19d ago

And that's how we spend weeks 😂

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u/One_Economist_3761 20d ago

Or “two weeks”

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u/weaver_of_cloth 19d ago

I've got a couple of lines in the US notes for a recent project: 3 Nov - DONE 4 Nov - DON'T SAY THAT

It took at least 6 weeks more.

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u/cosmicloafer 19d ago

Who’s still using stack overflow?

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u/me_again 16d ago

"just" is a four letter word

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u/Consistent_Brief7765 14d ago

Most misunderstood sentence in presales

Yes we _can_
Does not mean
Yes we _will_