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Which is a stupid mindset.
"Go forth and burn tokens and your performance will be measured on that"
Looks like I'm going to make a for to ask for a for every word in /usr/share/dict/words. Look at all the tokens I burned.
It doesn't reflect upon business value, performance, or education.
It's even worse than the disastrous lines of code metric.
Their problem is they have no idea what to expect, so to signal affinity to hype, they just measure tokens.