Being pessimistic is an advantageous personality trait when building software. The reason for this is that when building software everything takes longer to build than you think. Think of every feature as an iceberg: You can see 3 weeks of work above...
Markdown supported · ⌘↵ to post
Richard Gill
Hello ! I think time issues are far from being the only advantage at being pessimistic when developing software... It also allows to have a quite accurate (but nonetheless still optimistic) preview of what could go wrong when the software runs (and then helps preventing it), how the users could use the software the wrong way, how hackers could hack,...
Murphy's law states that everything that can go wrong, eventually will. Well, for software development, it is an understatement : it will be even worse...
Jorge Castro
Entrepreneur, Senior developer, Instructor
Or maybe it is the opposite, good software developers turn pessimists with the experience.