-2000 Lines of Code

Re:-2000 Lines of Code by bdw5204 on Saturday March 23, 2024 @10:17AM (#39800088)

Using production metrics as a whole is very stupid and a good way to get devs to optimize for the metrics rather than quality work. A contemporary example would be a company that promotes for "impact" (i.e. launching new products) which is a great way to have a bunch of failed products that nobody maintains!

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Re:-2000 Lines of Code by gabrielhidasy on Saturday March 23, 2024 @10:31AM (#39800195)

I know at least a few many-hundred-billion dollar companies that fit that description...

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Re:-2000 Lines of Code by rightbyte on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:10AM (#39814768)

Ye and you end up with blame games and hot potatoes being passed around.

Bug count metrics incentives "don't touch anything" and coding with feuture flags and globals to limit the scope of change and circumvent the architecture.

Like, just don't do metrics and have the management actually review the work of their subordinates if that is important to follow up on. Actual management can't be compressed to a acting on some scalar values.

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Re:-2000 Lines of Code by barcist on Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:42AM (#39884723)

Objective measures are a good thing. Otherwise you just end up with some subjective opinions nitting bro culture even closer together.

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