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I know I'm biased but Core 4 (and similar) rub me the wrong way – measuring individual developers as the atomic unit IMO is always meaningless. It's a proxy for organizational health but not directly correlated. Especially now with AI, what do metrics like "prs/engineer" even mean when you have background agents open/reviewing/releasing PRs without human intervention? what is the right unit for measuring health of th…
> Core 4 (and similar) rub me the wrong way – measuring individual developers as the atomic unit IMO is always meaningless And From: https://getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-... > Diffs per engineer* > > * Not at individual level Are you guys agreeing or disagreeing with each other?
The framework is explicitly titled "Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4". Diffs/engineer, even if not at the individual level, is still meant as a proxy for individual throughput. The question they are trying to answer is "how do we make Ganesh X% more productive?"
My argument is that that is the wrong question to be trying to optimize for, regardless of how you measure it. It also does not capture the risk dimensions with AI adoption (and the reduction in humans-in-the-loop) which my paper tries to directly address.