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Asking developers if they're "productive" is absolutely the wrong metric. Developers, well, love writing code. Lots of code. But in reality, code is a liability
by otabdeveloper4 6y ago
Asking developers if they're "productive" is absolutely the wrong metric. Developers, well, love writing code. Lots of code. But in reality, code is a liability, not an asset. (That Bill Gates quote about airplanes and weight, etc.)
- alecmg 6y agoI'm sure developers are not measuring their own productivity in lines of code. Rather how fast tasks get completed or how easy it is to modify code etc
- otabdeveloper4 6y agoI wasn't talking about lines of code. Developers have perverse incentives, like endlessly refactoring the same codebase or architecting "scalable" and "abstract" solutions.