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by rglover 402 days ago
Yup. Give people a number or stat to obsess over and they'll obsess over it (while ignoring the more meaningful work like stability and fixing real, user-facing bugs).

Over-obsession with KPIs/arbitrary numbers is one of the side-effects of managerial culture that badly needs to die.

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It’s just a few meaningful numbers like 0 accessibility errors, A+ for the securityheaders, flawless result on webkolls 5july net plus below 1 second loading time on pagespeed mobile. Once that has been achieved obsessing over stabilizing a flaky bloat pudding while patching over bugs aka features that annoy any user will have died.