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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

I love this story:

A division of AppleComputer started having developers report LinesOfCode written as a ProductivityMetric. The guru, BillAtkinson, happened to be refactoring and tuning a graphics library at the time, and ended up with a six-fold speedup and a much smaller library. When asked to fill in the form, he wrote in NegativeLinesOfCode. Management got the point and stopped using those forms soon afterwards.

this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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