I find the reasons why he's advocating that interesting.
It's got for his mental health, it looks good to recruiters, it makes the work more incremental (wat?), and it gives him a dopamine hit.
Notably absent are reasons that would benefit the project or product.
To me checking something in every day does not look impressive. It looks like someone had nothing to do worth talking about and went around the neighborhood cutting off leaves from the hedges.
Causing a lot of transactions is a great way to stop people assigning you actual work. I suspect OP forgot to mention that reason. You already look busy without actually being busy. It's like managers scheduling useless meetings. They want to look busy so nobody gives them actual work to make them actually busy.
"Mental health", motivation ("dopamine hit") and even incremental work all benefit the project, by helping them work consistently, and keep them focused - as opposed to coasting and doing not much, and/or getting burned out further. Some people have large inertia when it comes to doing things with delayed gratification (if at all), and ideas like this help.
It's got for his mental health, it looks good to recruiters, it makes the work more incremental (wat?), and it gives him a dopamine hit.
Notably absent are reasons that would benefit the project or product.
To me checking something in every day does not look impressive. It looks like someone had nothing to do worth talking about and went around the neighborhood cutting off leaves from the hedges.
Causing a lot of transactions is a great way to stop people assigning you actual work. I suspect OP forgot to mention that reason. You already look busy without actually being busy. It's like managers scheduling useless meetings. They want to look busy so nobody gives them actual work to make them actually busy.