alt Hacker NewsAlso trying to reduce productivity to some thing as silly as pull requests per hour etc ignores valuable contributions else where. Design, push back, quality, mentoring, leadership. I thought that is why meta had the "coding machine archetype" and other archetypes, recognising that just PRs aren't the only measurements.
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Cthulhu_ • today at 11:31 AM
From my limited experience with this tool / DORA metrics, it's not so much about performance (PRs per hour) but more about whether you can act fast if you need to. But I'm not sure what the other metrics are about.
And if you start measuring amount of commits or PR's I'd bet money on there suddenly being smaller PR's and more commits. As soon as the metric is tied to peoples livelihood, it will be gamed.
Funny anecdote: I had a large company selling their LLM tools with a slideshow starting with a mention of Goodhart's Law, and then proudly present number of PR's as a metric in the next slide.