This is not an isolated toy example, it's reductio ad absurdum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_abs

This is not an isolated toy example, it's reductio ad absurdum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum) - and until today I haven't seen a way to measure software productivity (might also apply to other knowledge work) that is resistant to that...