> rewarding people for the volume ... rather than the quality.

I suspect this is a major part of the appeal of LLMs themselves. They produce lines very fast so it appears as if work is being done fast. But that's very hard to know because number of lines is actually a zero signal in code quality or even a commit. Which it's a bit insane already that we use number of lines and commits as measures in the first place. They're trivial to hack. You even just reward that annoying dude who keeps changing the file so the diff is the entire file and not the 3 lines they edited...

I've been thinking we're living in "Goodhart's Hell". Where metric hacking has become the intent. That we've decided metrics are all that matter and are perfectly aligned with our goals.

But hey, who am I to critique. I'm just a math nerd. I don't run a multi trillion dollar business that lays off tons of workers because the current ones are so productive due to AI that they created one of the largest outages in history of their platform (and you don't even know which of the two I'm referencing!). Maybe when I run a multi trillion dollar business I'll have the right to an opinion about data.