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PRs merged is the LOC count. Completely useless measure of anything really.

Based on DORA research it's correlated with the engineering team/company being a high-performer.

The "Accelerate" book claims it is not just correlation but even causation: Higher deployment frequency causes better company performance.

Given that its trivially easy to produce unbounded amounts of useless PRs this cannot be a causation.

That's kind of what I was feeling. There is nothing that really keeps someone from just making BS tiny PRs