Comment on The circle of life
shuffle3765@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoBecause it’s a proxy metric for adoption. Currently you generally want your engineers to be using it as much as you can afford to so that they all learn and improve and adapt existing processes etc
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Which is a stupid mindset.
“Go forth and burn tokens and your performance will be measured on that”
Looks like I’m going to make a for to ask for a for every word in /usr/share/dict/words. Look at all the tokens I burned.
It doesn’t reflect upon business value, performance, or education.
It’s even worse than the disastrous lines of code metric.
Their problem is they have no idea what to expect, so to signal affinity to hype, they just measure tokens.