AI adoption and the Goodhart's law

Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." You can make an arguement that every corporate mandate is an example of Goodhart’s law, but this AI adoption thing is really nuts. Token Usage Commit count PR size Innovation percentage? The company is trying to increase and measure productivity using these metrics, what they’re getting is 1-2 weeks of confusion and then employees pushing out smaller commits, often and using Opus 4.8 on xHigh effort by default. submitted by /