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0 pointsbrabel2d ago0 comments

> No one in the industry has taken COCOMO seriously for nearly 2 decades.

The funny thing is that we've just discussed how people do take it seriously. It's just that you don't like that. And what do you offer as an alternative?

Like I said, vibes. You think that the value of some software is something you can only "feel". That's not how an engineer thinks. If you're engineer you should know that if you can't measure it, you can't say anything at all about it. Which means you cannot discount any alternative method until you've got a better way. But clearly you can't think like an engineer.

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sarchertech2d ago

I don’t know what to tell you. All the evidence says COCOMO is too inaccurate to use. Show me evidence that says it’s accurate.

Just because someone wrote a book and a few bankruptcy trustees used it doesn’t magically make it accurate. Just because something is systematic doesn’t mean it’s worth using.

If you do a bit of googling you’ll find that the majority of studies show that systemic models don’t outperform expert guesses. So yep vibes are general just as good.

Show me a large tech company that currently uses COCOMO to plan software projects.

Also if you are a dev outside of NASA or another safety critical industry and you think you’re an engineer, you’re kidding yourself.

Oh and try not to sound like an asshole next time.

jonahx2d ago

Many people also take tarot card reading seriously as a way to predict the future.

As an engineer, you are not required to come up with a better way of predicting the future before you can dismiss tarot. You need only show that it doesn't work.

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