Something I've learned from my experience working in software development: If you measure software developers (and probably any people) on any metric, they will change their behavior to optimize for that number. They will do this even if you don't reward or punish or judge or evaluate them using that metric. If they know the metric, they will change their behavior.
This means you need to be very, very careful that anything you measure is what you want people to optimize for.
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