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It‘s Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
by ck45 3y ago
It‘s Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
- enva2712 3y agoI’d interperet the cease qualifier in goodhart’s law to require the measure to be good in the first place, but I think SLOC is a negative indicator regardless of whether it’s a target I think there are parallels between Deutsch’s ideas about explanation and the concept of coincident vs inherent complexity
- Almondsetat 3y agoThis also goes for Goodhart's law itself
- arrowsmith 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/2899/ https://xkcd.com/2899/
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- samatman 3y agoThis is indeed funny, but the 'tribune' role of finding bad law/process and advocating for its removal is missing from most government, corporate or otherwise, and that's bad. It is in fact the same phenomenon as treating +SLOC as a proxy for productivity. When everyone is rewarded for adding process, but it isn't anyone's job to remove it, a system inevitably ends up with too much process.
- arrowsmith 3y agoLines of code is a bad measure even if it's not a target.