> Everyone is still guessing.
This isn't actually true, as the article points out; there is actually tons of empirical research.
> Everyone is still guessing.
This isn't actually true, as the article points out; there is actually tons of empirical research.
Virtually none of that research is actually high-quality, reproducible, and correlated with organizational outcomes. I don't see it as really actionable one way or the other.
No one is capable of measuring programmer productivity objectively.