Re:Show HN: GitHub Commit Visualiser
by phoe-krk on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:33AM
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This is just Goodhart's Law in action.
> activity => work and no activity => no work
Measuring activity, where by "activity" we mean "commits", means that a person who mentors other people, reviews thousands of lines of other people's code, and discusses that code in depth during long hours of meetings, does completely no work. I think you can see where such a measure can lead to.
> activity => work and no activity => no work
Measuring activity, where by "activity" we mean "commits", means that a person who mentors other people, reviews thousands of lines of other people's code, and discusses that code in depth during long hours of meetings, does completely no work. I think you can see where such a measure can lead to.