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by Redoubts 2545 days ago
> The person giving the estimate isn't the one who does this. Other people turn them into promises,

Why is that your problem? If someone tried to hold me to such an estimate, I would simply say "I never promised this, in fact I explicitly didn't promise this. I'm sorry X lied to your face about this." Don't own other people's failures.