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Comment by DavidPiper

3 days ago

> One man's incompetence is another man's profound skill

Only when there's no way to measure the results.

Measuring results is notoriously hard in this industry. Any metric can be easily manipulated, and many qualitative aspects of software are not quantifiable. Moreover, the people who get to decide the metrics will tend to choose them in a way that gives an advantage to themselves.