Key Performance Indicator: ie, someone at huawei’s job performance review depends on “made N open source contributions to major projects”, and Goodhart’s Law strikes again.
> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
And ironically, earned 3 points of HN karma kreds for this very tiny contribution to the discussion. Oh the deep irony in this particular context of KPI spamming.
HN posts/karma are probably going to come up in his next performance review!