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by phoe-krk 1410 days ago
This is just Goodhart's Law in action.

> activity => work and no activity => no work

Measuring activity, where by "activity" we mean "commits", means that a person who mentors other people, reviews thousands of lines of other people's code, and discusses that code in depth during long hours of meetings, does completely no work. I think you can see where such a measure can lead to.