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also what asinine dev team manager is "optimizing for output"??? that's like the worst idea. it's like judging carpenters by "most nails used".
Elon Musk
https://evan-soohoo.medium.com/did-elon-musk-really-fire-people-using-lines-of-code-as-his-metric-15c17254ed33
The obvious outcome of this is an army of juniors making the cut solely because their tasks were to update package.lock.