The myth of software development time estimation (opens in new tab)

I could have just written: "Even if we ignore the unpredictability of humans, there are deep, logical, Halting Problem-related reasons why coming up with accurate software development time estimations is idiotic." But then this wouldn't feel like a grand project that points out something fundamental perhaps a lot of people have missed, and doesn't convey the degree to which I think the halting problem actively limits what we humans can and can't do. I didn't word it a particular way to sound intellectual, I chose each word to convey the pseudo-religious experience of realizing that those hidden gotchas you experience while you code on a daily basis are there because of something fundamental, on the order of a physical law of the cosmos, so quit trying to reason around that fact with time-based estimations that pretend that everything is always going to go even close to what was planned. If you can find a non-douchy-intellectual way of giving me a pseudo-religious experience, then by all means, show me. It should sound like morgan freedman is reading it from the script of Cosmos.

edit: starting to like my edit better :/

Sorry you'll have to deal, for undergrad I double majored CS and Philosophy. That's literally my favorite 2-sentence section in the entire article, and I spent about 45 minutes to an hour revising just that section for flow and meaning. I am going to cry now.