that this does not make us fools is exactly what i wrote.

i am just tired of that “joke” that developers don’t understand their own work. its neither funny nor does it help anyone.

i hate this joke.

yes, trial and error is part of the process, but that does not mean we are bumbling fools that don’t know how or why things work. trial and error is part of any complex endeavour or learning new things.

when i started programming i struggled with getting stuff to compile, because i didn’t know the language i was using well, i later struggled with getting my code to work on other machines because i didn’t understood how to package it.

we absolutely get more competent, but we use complex tools to do complex stuff and we seldom have to produce the exact same thing twice, so of course we often find ourselves in somewhat uncharted territory.

i know story points as an estimate of complexity or time it takes to get something done. i was also asked many times to estimate stories with a fixed hard deadline thats laughably close to LocalDateTime.now(), aka Stories where someone allready decided that this must be an easy thing to do without knowing jackshit.

what are the story points you are talking about?

well, the ticket has a due date in 2 weeks so got to be a 7.

i have a 7 in 1 usb c hub from anker which is use with the deck and a hdmi monitor the deck lies flat on the table if i use the hub.

I don’t know if it’s more or less toxic than the dota2 games.