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2025-07-18_estimating-isnt-engineering.md

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 title: Estimating Isn't Engineering
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 # Estimating Isn't Engineering
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 This puzzled me because the examples they gave
 sounded like stereotypical estimation problems.
 
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 It's not engineering to budget for the most likely case.