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And if you start measuring amount of commits or PR's I'd bet money on there suddenly being smaller PR's and more commits. As soon as the metric is tied to peoples livelihood, it will be gamed.

Funny anecdote: I had a large company selling their LLM tools with a slideshow starting with a mention of Goodhart's Law, and then proudly present number of PR's as a metric in the next slide.

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