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by Nasrudith 1021 days ago
Putting aside the obvious Goodhart's Law implication productivity isn't just based off of the "components" be they human or otherwise but also the fundamental goals which control the end product.

If I was an utterly mad billionaire who believed that I could hire top software talent and have them attempt to store physical objects in data. Not 'encode the schematics' or even 'encode the complete physical details' but such that it was possible to generate some hidden combination. Such an endevour would not be productive but the fault doesn't lie in the employees.