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by rebuilder 62 days ago
It’s like a trucking company bragging about how much fuel they’re using.
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If they aren’t wasteful it’s a reasonable measure of work. If they spend 18 hours in a traffic circle not so much.
As soon as you quantify something (lines of code, tickets closed, tokens spent, whatever) it starts to be gamed and therefore ceases to be a reasonable measure of work.
Fuel per employee or fuel per delivered cargo? Tandem trailers get used where they make sense, and use more fuel per employee.
It's more like a trucking company bragging about spending more on electricity for EV trucks than gas for ICE trucks