[diNgUrAndI]

> Misleading vividness – involves describing an occurrence in vivid detail, even if it is an exceptional occurrence, to convince someone that it is a problem; this also relies on the appeal to emotion fallacy. Some engineers may use such fallacy, exposing all the technicalities of their job to cover incompetence and justify failure in rolling out feature in time.

I think experienced co-workers can tell whether you are exaggerating or telling the truth. I found someone has the tendencies to elaborate on stuffs in an emotional way. This is especially common in junior devs. From my experience, most senior devs tend to be more reserved and careful about their words.

What do you guys think?

[robluxus]

I think too much experience can also cause this. I see this from time to time when we design new systems or products: everyone is optimistic about the idea but the more senior people you have in the room there's more chance someone paints vivid pictures of how everything could fall horribly into pieces if we meet this one corner case that they saw in a slightly related project 2 decades and 5 companies ago.