Nah. It’s most likely not that direct. If the boss makes it clear that they measure productivity by blindly adhering to some dumb metric (number of updates , kloc, number of bugfixes) then the devs will find a way to max out that stat, to get bonuses, promos, etc.

As much as the author has shown his ass, this is the classic comic that comes to mind reddit.com/…/bug_free_programs_a_dilbert_classic/