[Jimmy]

>Honestly, I'd assume that pretty much any of these flaws are more fixable than you'd expect.

The first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% of the project takes the other 90% of the time.

I don't think it's wise to speculate at this point on what problems are "actually easy" or "actually hard", or how long it'll take to achieve certain milestones. I don't think that even the people at the forefront of this research have any way of knowing for sure.

[IIAOPSW]

your projects take up 180% of the time?

[Jimmy]

Yours don't?

[webmaven]

> your projects take up 180% of the time?

For some projects, 180% would have been an improvement. I've even had a few projects take ~500% of the time. Arguably I should have cut my losses sooner, but I wasn't very good at recognizing the sunk cost fallacy back then.