[nlawalker]

It’s hilarious to me, seeing that one of the most fundamental challenges and frustrations of the profession of software development is the inability of management to meaningfully measure productivity and resorting to proxy measures, that a huge and vocal community of software developers have themselves become focused on a metric that maps directly to dollars spent.

[wilkystyle]

Was already astounded that after decades of universally agreeing that number of lines of code is a terrible metric for software engineering productivity, devs are now using it as the proof that agentic software development is the future. Can't wrap my head around how lighting money on fire is now apparently something to maximize [0].

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1teswot/pe...

[Alex_L_Wood]

Not only we are looping, we are also adding layers of Idiocracy upon each loop. I kinda envy retired software engineers now, they can just grab the popcorn and watch this dumpster fire without a worry.

[cyanydeez]

at this point capitalism has created its circular economy without providing any benefit to it's surrounding. In this specific case it's closer to a human centipede of circular funding.