"That can be easily done in 5 minutes"

Especially now, when it is a status quo that everybody can do anything one prompt away. I have been bothered for a long time about the notion of "it will take only five minutes". It always made me feel somehow inferior: Surely I must be wrong if everybody around me can figure out exactly how many minutes every complicated task will take. But I did not and still have not budged. My way is to take enormously long amount of time to think the issue through and only then take the action. Do you know why? Because if I take the wrong decision I will have to pay for it with time and effort, and if it is a business — with money also. So no, if ChatGPT told you "it can be done in half an hour" because it is parroting what the majority have been saying for the past couple decades—that might not, in fact, be true. I would wager it would take at least 3x more time to do the thing you want to do. And that still implies cutting corners.