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Productivity isn't about going faster
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#12Productivity is easy to define and measure when you have a an outcome you want to achieve. A goal if you will.
Productivity is impossible to define when you don’t know where you’re going.
A lot of companies and teams are finding out real fast they have zero clue where the fuck they’re trying to go or what they want to achieve. Just a bunch of people running in random directions before the funding runs out.
Pick a direction. Then go fast.
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#13Curious how companies measure developers productivity in the era of vide engineering... Token usage? Lines of code? Features shipped? Bug fixed? Code health? Maybe we should use amount of code read or PRs reviewed? Or another metric that would correlate with the amount of person's accountability?
"Trust", as unquantifiable as it is, will be the only metric
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#14> It's about spending your time where it truly matters. I think the author conflates productivity with meaningfulness.
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#15> It's about spending your time where it truly matters. I think the author conflates productivity with meaningfulness.
productivity is meaningfulness but for somebody else.
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#16> It's about spending your time where it truly matters. I think the author conflates productivity with meaningfulness.
Well, I think the author correctly identifies productivity as a vector instead of a scalar.
But perhaps a better title would be "Productivity Isn't (Only) About Going Faster"
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#17Curious how companies measure developers productivity in the era of vide engineering... Token usage? Lines of code? Features shipped? Bug fixed? Code health? Maybe we should use amount of code read or PRs reviewed? Or another metric that would correlate with the amount of person's accountability?
Measuring developer productivity has been an unsolved problem for decades already, vibe engineering just makes that unsolved problem feel even harder.
proxies like customer/revenue growth, complaints/satisfaction and such works imho.
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#18Oh yeah we're all gonna 11x any day now by reading Linked-In-life posts on HN about slowing down and enjoying the pizza.
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#19This rings very true as an industry. We are all extremely busy, producing billions of lines of code, and yet the software around us isn't really getting any better.
What we'd need instead is concerted simplification. But that ain't gonna happen.
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#20I’ve been thinking about this more and more lately. What can I really do that matters?
Make money? It’s gone eventually. Be remembered? I’ll eventually be forgotten. Be REALLY remembered? I’ll be forgotten in a few thousand years. Become immortal? All entropy in the universe eventually dissipates.
What I can do though, is have a good time with the people I love.