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geekjock on Jan 25, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the dat...

"Lines of code is a much better proxy than reported productivity."

Researchers who specialize in this field largely disagree with this. Here's a round-up: https://getdx.com/blog/measuring-developer-activity/

marcosdumay on Jan 25, 2024 [–]

You noticed that those quotes are almost all about metrics for rewarding or punishing developers, right?

esafak on Jan 25, 2024 | [–]

The point of collecting data is to act on it.

yjftsjthsd-h on Jan 25, 2024 | | [–]

But in this case the individual devs aren't rewarded/punished

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