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Classic Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." I don’t know the solution for this. But sheer number of PRs/commits

Classic Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." I don’t know the solution for this. But sheer number of PRs/commits is obviously meaningless. We just don’t have a better (cheaper) proxy to latch on to.

Avamander 6y ago
I think if people who get a `spam` or `invalid` tag to their PR should be instantly disqualified. That could work.
- corobo 6y ago
  That is the case. The issue this year is the PRs have been essentially automated by some YouTuber telling people how to game the system