Strong claims made in this fun piece of research on code commits. Using this (acknowledged) flawed measure of developer productivity, the authors claim that nearly 10% of software engineers are doing pretty much nothing at all 🤣. Worth reading for a number of reasons: 1) the map is not the territory - do we know why the measurement is flawed? 2) what is productivity for problem solving work -
thinking about a problem takes time, yet this would not only not be measured, but be considered ‘waste’ and 3) it’s plausible enough that there are lot of people who exploit these ambiguities and do in fact do
f7ck all.