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Skeptic here. How can you validate the difference in effort from a startup where growth happens in explosive moments with many rewrites in between vs a refined enterprise codebase with incremental changes? Is it productive if I have tried many changes in branches and none of them made it to prod?

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Startups will naturally have higher output than enterprises for this reason - we'll show people benchmarks accordingly.

> Is it productive if I have tried many changes in branches and none of them made it to prod?

Our metric measures displacement, not distance - under the assumption that the end state is the part that matters the most. It will notice if the resulting change has a higher cognitive load and evaluate it accordingly - but if there is no resulting change then ultimately there's no output to measure.

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