-2000 Lines of Code (2007)
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Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2007)
#2+KLoC is a terrible KPI that optimizes for complexity, waste, and artificial job security-seeking behaviors.
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#3+KLoC is a terrible KPI that optimizes for complexity, waste, and artificial job security-seeking behaviors.
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#4+KLoC is a terrible KPI that optimizes for complexity, waste, and artificial job security-seeking behaviors.
It‘s Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2007)
#5> they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form
which is only possible because he's so important.
imagine doing this as a stack-ranked IC in an org like AWS.
The old days of a software as an artisanal craft is long over imho.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2007)
#6+KLoC is a terrible KPI that optimizes for complexity, waste, and artificial job security-seeking behaviors.
But they ARE a KPI that is easy to understand and measure.
Re: -2000 Lines of Code (2007)
#7+KLoC is a terrible KPI that optimizes for complexity, waste, and artificial job security-seeking behaviors.
It‘s Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
I’d interperet the cease qualifier in goodhart’s law to require the measure to be good in the first place, but I think SLOC is a negative indicator regardless of whether it’s a target
I think there are parallels between Deutsch’s ideas about explanation and the concept of coincident vs inherent complexity
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It‘s Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
This also goes for Goodhart's law itself