I have zero respect for any engineering leadership that thinks lines of code and number of commits are acceptable metrics for a software engineer's performance

@riamaria Is that still a thing? I even remember an anecdote from Andy Hertzfeld's Revolution in the Valley about how someone at Apple tried to do that over 40 years ago.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt

People just don't learn.

@ricardojmendez I mean, the most famous example in recent times happened at Twitter.

@riamaria Right, but that's Musk - he's pretty much a walking strawman argument for bad management at this point, bundled up in a cocoon of cliché. Of course he'd reach for that chestnut.

I'm now curious about how widespread the practice still is at otherwise seemingly sensible places, though.