> ...but having seen both systems in action, I believe it can be done. Are you talking about your time selling cars? Have you actually seen a software engineer

> ...but having seen both systems in action, I believe it can be done. Are you talking about your time selling cars? Have you actually seen a software engineering organization work by paying commission/piece-rate for the completion of tasks? > And it would be worth trying IMO, because the potential for productivity improvement is insanely high. Dumber things have been tried (codling tech workers). It's not worth trying, I wouldn't be surprised if it hasn't been tried many times before. It's a bad idea that's easy to think of, and appeals to certain kinds of prejudices and misunderstandings. I've spend enough time talking about it. By the way, have you ever read the classic software engineering book PeopleWare? If you haven't, you should.