I find it amusing that people who are talking about Dark Software Factories, are talking about productivity in terms of number of pull requests or commits as a unit.

If we are going in the Dark Software Factory route, why aren't we calling the code units as bos (bunch of shit) yet.

its the optimizing utilization instead of overall throughput all over again. eli goldratt talked about this in the 1970s[1]. we still haven't learned

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)

No one serious about the idea can afford either vanity metrics nor ignorance of the code. The bar is higher, not lower, to operate with this much automation in the water supply. It's mostly a lot more math and a lot more work.

It's an extreme form of any startup: you trade off capital for years of your life.

Surely "pile of...?"