re: #348 Hecuba’s daughter

But sometimes it’s impossible to do “fast”. It’s like assuming that you can have a baby in one month by having 9 woman being pregnant. If this is Musk’s order, he is truly an imbecile. Wait — he really is an imbecile, even before this! It’s one thing to change a process by increasing an existing charge — It’s usually a no-brainer to update existing software for raising a price. Adding a totally different charging mechanism is a very different story.

Which is a well-known IT thing. The “mythical man-month” goes back to IBM development in the 1960s. And it was taught in IT classes in the 1980s* as part of the education on project design and management. Of course, that doesn’t prevent management from again and again repeating those errors.

* - Brook’s _The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering_ was part of the reading list for one of my classes.