Tag: Metrics
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The CTO’s real job when AI changes how software gets built
A few months ago, a CTO I know pushed a massive change directly to production. He had used an AI coding tool to generate the entire thing over a weekend, bypassed code review, skipped staging, and deployed it himself. By Monday morning, the system was broken. The QA engineer who spent two days untangling the…
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The Measurement Problem: When Your Metrics Reward the Wrong Behavior
Last year, I sat in a quarterly business review where an engineering director presented what he called “the best quarter in the team’s history.” Velocity was up 42%. Pull requests per developer had nearly doubled. Sprint burndowns were textbook smooth. The slides were polished, the trend lines all pointed up, and the room was nodding…
