<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lws803</author><text>100% this should never be an excuse to push for a faster outcome. I have to admit though, as a personal mental exercise, this has saved me countless of hours from going down the rabbit hole of over-engineering. Some problems just need a simple solution, sometimes even without any changes to code.</text><parent_chain><item><author>from-nibly</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours, what do you do?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;PSA: if you are a project manager &amp;#x2F; owner or some other similar position you do not get to ask this. This is a personal educational excercise not a way to get stuff done faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms we develop software by</title><url>https://grantslatton.com/software-pathfinding</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>&amp;quot;gun to your head&amp;quot; is maybe not appropriate for work, but the exercise is good for cutting to the core of a task when necessary.  It&amp;#x27;s really the same question as what is the minimum viable product.</text><parent_chain><item><author>from-nibly</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours, what do you do?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;PSA: if you are a project manager &amp;#x2F; owner or some other similar position you do not get to ask this. This is a personal educational excercise not a way to get stuff done faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms we develop software by</title><url>https://grantslatton.com/software-pathfinding</url></story>