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Once I worked on a large system that had a prediction module, supposed to tell us how long certain tasks would take and what resources they would need.
Somebody decided to call it Cassandra.
I thought this was crazy for 2 reasons:
(1) Cassandra's predictions were always correct and never believed, but their predictions were always believed and never correct.
(2) In the story, Cassandra got murdered, which I thought set an inconvenient precedent.
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