Since this went very viral: I'm not actually a super human coder. It's automation and the shades of green represent me actually doing work.
I don't know why GitHub doesn't filter the automated actions for this graph. It clearly can distinguish them in the API/UI.
Vercel uses a tool to measure dev productivity and it absolutely doesn't credit me with 10K contributions.
I've been doing about a 1 PR per "traditional work day" during my time at Vercel, but tbh most of that code is written on the weekend as strong proponent of the 557 work day 馃槄
It was frowned upon to look at quantitative metrics during performance reviews for a while, but I've always been a proponent. Ultimately, we're here to ship code. If you didn't do that a lot, there might be a reason, but it must be a glaringly obvious reason.
Is 2.1 PRs per day better than 1.9? No. But I want to understand why somebody does 0.3. Maybe they are just weak at structuring their work.
My calendar today has 7.5 hours of meetings and a work dinner:
- 2h customer calls
- 1h board meeting of an industry org
- 1.5h keynote planning for our Ship AI conf
- 1h interview
- 1h incident reviews
+ assorted fun stuff
So, we'll see how much I'll get done today. Yesterday, I cancelled a bunch of meetings and spent a few hours chasing a bug in Next.js that @mintlify experienced. I eventually managed to reproduce and merged a workaround. Then I got a haircut and BBQed pork chops. So, overall a very fulfilling day
vercel cto btw
how is this even possible @cramforce
