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What Is Complexity-Adjusted Throughput? The Metric That Replaces LOC

Ameya Kanitkar
Ameya Kanitkar
Mar 19, 2026 10:00:00 PM

TL;DR Complexity-Adjusted Throughput (CAT) measures developer output by weighting each pull request by its difficulty — Easy (1 point), Medium (3 points), Hard (8 points) — instead of counting raw ...