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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you dump in a lot of food or chemicals to achieve short-term results, you *might* be able to juice things in the short run for your fish, but you also buy the consequences of a dynamically unstable system under stress.
So when managers assume that they'll "increase productivity" by adding a machine that generates more code, without taking into account the intertemporal effects of *owning* more code (of lowest-common-denominator quality), they're replicating the KLOC fallacy on steroids.