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Excellent points about visiblity, as long as you can keep it in that domain.

But this always lurks in the near shadows:

>>I’ve never thought of it being used maliciously, it’s for visibility. It would be a shitty manager that would use it that way

Therein lies the problem, on both sides. It would just become another arms race, as the developers would use it to identify and move into target project areas/components to get themselves on the list of un-fireable workers. Ideally, the workers would ensure work together to ensure that the truck_factor was zero, i.e., none of them could be fired.

Of course all of this rapidly becomes a (nearly)complete waste of time, proving the blogger's friends original point: >>"My coworkers said it would immediately hit Goodhart’s Law. "