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		gravy 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) It never occurred to me that a rebuttal to "not using lines of code or bugs solved because it can be gamed" is just to point out productivity is literally always gamed

readthenotes1 10 months ago [–]

They even have a fancy title, "measurement dysfunction", and a smug "if you know you know" nickname, Goodhart's Law

graemep 10 months ago | [–]

and Campbells Law, and the CObra effect.

I had not come across "measurement dysfunction" before. Useful phrase.

dilyevsky 10 months ago | | [–]

A related phenomenon is McNamara Fallacy

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