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Bruce Mardle's avatar

Reminds me of a bit in a book on writing compilers: "if it takes 3 years for 1 person to write a compiler then it'll take a team of 10 people 1 year, and a team of 100 people will never finish it"!

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Nemanja Maksimović's avatar

What one engineer can do in one day, two engineers can do in two days...

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Darrin Lee Hutton's avatar

pop quiz, hot shot! will management ever learn anything? 😄

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Rob K's avatar

Can't help but notice how often the engineer happens to be named Bob. What a strange coincidence...

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Prosthetic Lips's avatar

And, how much of Bob's time will be spent explaining the support structure around the task, and background information needed to accomplish said task?

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Utkarsh Mathur's avatar

The correct answer is not to have the intern do it. He needs to be trained first...

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