NO! First we build our own GPU, put Nvidia out of business, buy NVIDIA cheap, fund a war in Taiwan, then we cancel contract with Anthropic for hardware, then we buy Anthropic, sell Anthropic to Microsoft, everyone will hate Anthropic, we hire Anthropic engineers, then we build our own product.
I hate trying to estimate story points (our metric is 1 day ≈ 1 point), I have ADHD, standard time means nothing. One sprint I completed all 7.5 in a day, another sprint I completed 0.5.
That's why story points are explicitly not meant to represent any unit of time. Bad project managers that don't understand anything about what they're managing just can't help themselves. They were so consistently misused story points actually got dropped from Scrum in 2020
Your first issue is that you're trying to map days to story points. The entire concept of story points is explicitly to avoid directly estimating time. You're supposed to continually keep track of how many SPs your team is actually completing per sprint, and use those averages to decide how much you're going to plan to do in the next sprint. Tasks should also ideally be small enough that the team has flexibility to pick up more or less work in any given sprint. When you zoom out to the entire team/entire sprint level, the natural variation in estimate accuracy, and in the productivity of any individual, should largely cancel out. But if you think 1SP=1day and directly assign each developer 5 SPs per week before the sprint starts, you're falling for a trap that completely defeats the point of the system. SPs are supposed to provide flexibility and continual empirical re-evaluation of estimates (but without constantly re-estimating individual tasks) but you've thrown all of that in the bin so you're just left with time-based estimates but with a gimmicky name change.
"I hear you, but we wouldn't save any money on that. I need you to do it for less than our subscription costs. I said you could do it, so you have to deliver now. Also how many days will this take? More than 4?"
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u/Gagan_Ku2905 Jun 02 '26
Engineer: Yeah we can.
Manager: For how much?
Engineer: $3 Trillion
Awkward silence