"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric". A big problem is making it mandatory with huge bureaucracy to avoid its stupidness. Just last

"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric". A big problem is making it mandatory with huge bureaucracy to avoid its stupidness. Just last week I was battling yet another code quality tool they made mandatory: it was complaining that my res.status(200).json() wasn't setting up HSTS headers. And then I tried setting it up manually, it kept complaining, app.use(helmet()), same thing. Apparently it wanted me to write the whole backend code into a single file for it to stop complaining. And of course, HSTS is much more elegantly and automatically handled by the ingress or load balancer itself. I could have spent a week or two flagging it as a false positive and explaining what is HSTS for upper management to approve it. I ended up just adding a res.sendJson(data, status = 200) to the prototype of the response object. Which is obviously stupid, but working in a bureaucracy-heavy sector has made me realize how much of bad software is composed of many such bad implementations combined.