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You Are Optimizing for the Wrong Metric

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Post by lucaspauker » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:41 PM UTC

You Are Optimizing for the Wrong Metric
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Re: You Are Optimizing for the Wrong Metric

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Post by kspetkov79 » Fri, May 22, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

A bad metric can look fine at first. Then people get good at moving the number instead of improving the thing.

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