Comment by atoav

Every metric bas unintended side effects. Sure capitalists tend to think the greatest stuff happens from competition, but for real competition you need redundancy -and pay multiple people for writing functionally the same code.

Competition within teams selects for the people who invest most time into looking as if they produced worked punishes those who are good team players.

On top of that, how do you compare a guy who produces 100k lines of unmaintainable boilerplate code versus a guy who in the same timeframe hunts down a particularly nasty and hard to fix race condition and changed 1 line in the end? Any programmer knows the latter is much more exhausting and provides lasting value, while the former might actively hurt the project down the line.

If you manage software development either you trust your team or you have to understand the program yourself and micromanage them. Best would be to trust and understand the program and only inject yourself when it is really needed.