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tvbusytoday at 3:16 PM1 replyview on HN

One thing this post did not discuss is the enormous effort required to explain to the management why number PRs has increased and number of lines changes, which in their view, means explosion of productivity, yet one engineer is destroying the team's momentum.


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florianherrengttoday at 3:22 PM

I tried to touch on that with this part:

> Fixing it would require such a colossal amount of work that it would be impossible to even start justifying it to anyone in management. > And what are you even thinking about? It would end up in the exact same state again in just a few months anyway.

The management side of this probably deserves a whole post of its own. There’s only so far I can take each tangent before the original post becomes too long for anyone to finish.