"Cost per line of code"pic.twitter.com/7GqqRX03IF
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I am one chapter into Clean Architecture and I am already entirely bamboozled * What's the horizontal axis? * Who measures productivity in lines of code? * Bob, what's the horizontal axis? * "Major release"? What year is this book from? * 2017???pic.twitter.com/KIe1ayYsMf
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To be fair, the point we're trying to demonstrate here is perfectly valid: as a piece of software ages, it becomes increasingly expensive to develop for. But these charts are just legendarypic.twitter.com/uQPGqIyDl9
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It's so bizarre to chart the number of developers working on a piece of software over time and point to it as if it means anything. The recruitment pattern is baffling, what reason could there be for adding so many people for a single release?
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If this is enterprise software, a more likely pattern would be the number of developers holding steady while development steadily gets harder. How would you even recruit and retain people if your codebase was that bad
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Here's the payroll chart. But the most important chart is the missing one: revenue! None of the preceding charts are necessarily problematic if the product is making money. But this is entirely unacknowledged in the bookpic.twitter.com/XEOAVqHTMh
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is this... not satire? it looks a lot like satire
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lmao wut
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A disturbingly high number of companies measure productivity in lines of code. It's easy to measure and to managers it looks like it ought to be meaningful. It is CORRELATED with productivity.
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I'm sure I don't need to explain the perverse incentives to you.
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I think these charts all describe my last job
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