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Hillarous that Liang seem to claim they do some classic give engineers freedom and agency. Kinda like Google did initially?

KPIs and metrics in general are trashing productivity and moral when used even in the most slightly evaluating manner of personal performance.

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It's probably more about the size of the firm. Once a company is large enough with middle layers and silos it seems some form of KPI is inevitable. This could also explain why Deepseek doesn't mind open sourcing as they have not raised outside capital for expansion so they can't really scale rapidly on their own.