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The Cobra Effect #291

Open dwmkerr opened 4 years ago

dwmkerr commented 4 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

This is an interesting one, in some ways it ties into Gall's Law and "Reward Hacking".

umutphp commented 4 years ago

Yes, this should be in the document :). Any software developer has already created a cobra effect at least once in one of his/her projects.