alt Hacker NewsIt’s not clear companies were measuring anything but token usage. What information could leadership have collected to determine what worked, what didn’t, and what needs more data? Other than the balance sheet and revenue, do companies actually have sufficient information to understand the results?
Were they trying to measure other things? Definitely. The COO at Uber, one of the examples in the source article, has talked publicly about how they've searched for (and so far failed to find) a link between micro-level metrics driven by AI and concrete improvements in high level project velocity.
Do these measurements have sufficient information? As much as any, I'd guess. It sounds like you already know that it's pretty hard in general to measure the productive output of software development organizations.