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Let me just ignore my natural distain to the whole thing (as a engineer and a manager) > We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact direc

by id00 2y ago

Let me just ignore my natural distain to the whole thing (as a engineer and a manager) > We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact directly... This is a bold claim all things considering. Don't you need to fine tune this model for every customer as their business metrics likely vastly different? How do you measure the impact of refactoing? What about regressions or design mistakes that surface themselves after months or even years?

adchurch 2y ago
Different companies will have different outputs just by the nature of their stage & situation, but the numbers are still relatively comparable (e.g. across different teams). > How do you measure the impact of refactoing? The metric def gives credit for refactoring > What about regressions or design mistakes that surface themselves after months or even years? Not captured (part of why it's only an important part of the story, not the whole story :))
adchurch 2y ago
> Let me just ignore my natural distain to the whole thing (as a engineer and a manager) I totally get this - that's how I felt initially, but I was shocked to find that the vast majority of orgs are using bad metrics like LOC or commit counts anyway. Our belief is that replacing those with something much more accurate can help the entire industry.
- id00 2y ago
  I worked as a manager in a big tech company that used metrics such as amount of PRs done, amount of PR reviews and etc. At least with those when there were questions based on those metrics - I was able to contextualize and explain to upper management why for a particular eng they show a dip even when their performance is stellar. How am I going to do that with your blackbox metrics when this need arises? Also I don't have a Google account, so I can't even get pass your frontpage that has no info?

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Let me just ignore my natural distain to the whole thing (as a engineer and a manager) > We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact direc

by id00 2y ago

adchurch 2y ago
Different companies will have different outputs just by the nature of their stage & situation, but the numbers are still relatively comparable (e.g. across different teams). > How do you measure the impact of refactoing? The metric def gives credit for refactoring > What about regressions or design mistakes that surface themselves after months or even years? Not captured (part of why it's only an important part of the story, not the whole story :))
adchurch 2y ago
> Let me just ignore my natural distain to the whole thing (as a engineer and a manager) I totally get this - that's how I felt initially, but I was shocked to find that the vast majority of orgs are using bad metrics like LOC or commit counts anyway. Our belief is that replacing those with something much more accurate can help the entire industry.
- id00 2y ago
  I worked as a manager in a big tech company that used metrics such as amount of PRs done, amount of PR reviews and etc. At least with those when there were questions based on those metrics - I was able to contextualize and explain to upper management why for a particular eng they show a dip even when their performance is stellar. How am I going to do that with your blackbox metrics when this need arises? Also I don't have a Google account, so I can't even get pass your frontpage that has no info?