Post #2622664
2026-02-28 20:21 UTC
@alavie@kolektiva.social @ksylor@front-end.social @drewpickard@mastodon.social This sounds like the age old mistake of trying to measure developer productivity by the number of lines of code they write https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html?sort=date
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@ksylor@front-end.social 2026-02-28 20:24
@db@magrathea.space @alavie@kolektiva.social @drewpickard@mastodon.social can’t help but wonder if I put a target on my back for the second round of layoffs by vocally pushing back against throwing away decades of research by using numbers that have been debunked. I pushed to use research backed methods for measuring productivity instead. But, who knows