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They measured by the perceived output of the team. Give them credit for being self-serving, at a minimum.

Management doesn’t always know what they are building is correct.

They are going to manage risk of low quality with risk of wrong product.

I would be interested to know your career history in more depth.

To my understanding even IBM in the 70s had stupid ways of measuring productivity (KLOCs?).

Right. This is where you would think the AI assistance could play an important role:

Warning: it looks like you’re trying to pack too much crap into a single PR and your peers are unlikely to understand what they are accepting.

Why marketing before product?

It’s not trustworthy until dozens of independent labs across several countries can validate it.

> there was never a real change in their diet or exercise

Don’t you think that could have been the reason their health continued to fail?