If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)
The equivalent the other way. If programmers hired like carpenters are hired made a table:<p>&quot;How long will it take to make this table?&quot;<p>&quot;3 weeks. But we&#x27;re going to try using this new kind of leg because it&#x27;s easier to replace with another leg if you don&#x27;t like it. So it may take 5 weeks.&quot;<p>5 weeks pass<p>&quot;Is the table done?&quot;<p>&quot;Well, no, not really. But now you can have four different legs if you want to. We&#x27;ve also got this table building machine that can make all the different types of legs that will slot in&quot;<p>&quot;Can we use the table-building machine to build the table?&quot;<p>&quot;No, it only does legs right now&quot;<p>10 weeks later<p>&quot;All right guys, it&#x27;s been twice as long. Is it done?&quot;<p>&quot;Yeah, we&#x27;re finished. You&#x27;re going to love this. We upgraded the table building machine so now it builds as many tables as you like. All you have to do is sketch out a full blueprint. We&#x27;ve got one blueprint for the table you want, but you can make more if you like&quot;<p>&quot;Where&#x27;s my actual table?&quot;<p>&quot;Oh, it&#x27;s that pile in the corner. It&#x27;s broken, though. Jack placed a red cup on it and it fell apart. You&#x27;re not supposed to do that. We told him to use blue cups. It&#x27;s in the manual. We explicitly fixed blue cups last week.&quot;