Post #621096
2026-03-11 05:24 UTC
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@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-11 05:47
And yet I experience it so often. That or “effort points” as the metric being used to determine who all stars are. Either as a metric just encourages gaming of the system: Why write one line when I can write the same thing in 20? Why take this one effort point task I think will take three when I can just skip it and grab these one effort points I think will take 20 minutes? I’ve been on teams that on the surface didn’t have these metrics matter, but the top effort points achiever got bonuses on the DL.
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@CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-03-11 08:27
In college, on the first day of orientation, someone in my class bragged that they wrote 50,000 lines of code for a game that was similar to tic tac toe, emphasizing that he "wrote a lot of code". A TA told him that it wasn't a sign that his program was decent and that it really didn't seem like it should take 50k lines of code to make something as simple as his game. He dropped out after the first week of intro to programming.
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@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2026-03-11 05:42
I wouldn't say PR size is a bad metric, you usually just need yo read it the opposite of how sloppers do it, i.e. the most productive PRs are short and focused.