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by fxtentacle 2041 days ago
From my own experience, I can tell you that programmers can even go negative with their productivity.

I've had one employee on my team who ignored my instructions, ported a critical tool to a new execution environment, added 20 additional dependencies, and then pushed the broken mess onto GitHub. After sinking some days into trying to get anything useful out of the source code, we eventuality just deleted it.