Comment by gravy
1 month ago
It never occurred to me that a rebuttal to "not using lines of code or bugs solved because it can be gamed" is just to point out productivity is literally always gamed
1 month ago
It never occurred to me that a rebuttal to "not using lines of code or bugs solved because it can be gamed" is just to point out productivity is literally always gamed
They even have a fancy title, "measurement dysfunction", and a smug "if you know you know" nickname, Goodhart's Law
and Campbells Law, and the CObra effect.
I had not come across "measurement dysfunction" before. Useful phrase.
A related phenomenon is McNamara Fallacy