There was an amusing post about judging developers based on token usage where some user on HN here was pushing this idea “ICs don’t like it but this is the best way to evaluate” (something like that).

They have a whole management team and can’t seem to find a way to judge or god forbid encourage developers…

Problem is in management, management usually comes up non-sense metric when they themselves lack of good metric.

For example, everyone talks about strategy, but when you ask them what's our strategy answer is usually something like:

* let's figure out together

* industry changing is so fast, we should revisit plans every quarter

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