# Cobra effect Created On: 10-13-2022 09:28 am Up:: [[Concepts (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: [[Motivators]] Related:: --- When antithetical outcomes are implicitly enabled/rewarded against the intended goal or outcome. It is a form of [[Perverse incentive]] where the target outcome enables a worse overall outcome. An example: software engineers whose productivity is measured by the number of lines of code they write. This may perversely incentivize the engineers to bloat a codebase more broadly instead of making it simpler/cleaner/easier to understand.