[gravy]

It never occurred to me that a rebuttal to "not using lines of code or bugs solved because it can be gamed" is just to point out productivity is literally always gamed

[readthenotes1]

They even have a fancy title, "measurement dysfunction", and a smug "if you know you know" nickname, Goodhart's Law

[graemep]

and Campbells Law, and the CObra effect.

I had not come across "measurement dysfunction" before. Useful phrase.

[dilyevsky]

A related phenomenon is McNamara Fallacy