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29 April 2026

Claude learned to estimate from the best of us

I find it consistently amusing the way that Claude Code sucks its teeth, kicks the tyres and comes up with "Hmm, well, that might be doable in a week, but what with with all these migrations you're really looking at August" when you ask it to work up something in plan mode.

But then proceeds to plough through the entire feature in 15 minutes.

The training sets must include a tonne of sprint planning transcripts with world-weary devs rolling their eyes every time a naive product owner says a variation on "Well, I think this feature should be straight-forward"...

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