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When a company measures developer productivity in code added and feature delivered, it creates a perverse incentive that attracts people that really love to wri
by sph 3y ago
When a company measures developer productivity in code added and feature delivered, it creates a perverse incentive that attracts people that really love to write a lot of code and building mountains out of molehills.
The best engineer (and not only, see that famous quote by Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord) often is the lazy one. It was a known notion that somehow disappeared around the turn of the millennium.
- baz00 3y agoIndeed. We're still around. We're just so far up the hierarchy now that the wisdom can't be pushed down easily.