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Re:9.5% of software engineers are ghosts by sabelo on Thursday November 21, 2024 @01:00AM (#42201539)
So many billions of dollars will be lost because of this, like scrum before it! Commits, without context, don't say much. Eager companies will try to follow this and just create a cobra effect.
Re:9.5% of software engineers are ghosts by varjag on Thursday November 21, 2024 @03:55AM (#42202375)
The other 42% make trivial changes, like editing one line or character--pretending to work.

Sure commits are not a perfect metric but let's not pretend that it's completely opaque.