Comment by Aperocky

> I tend to think that the dev who can churn out thousands of lines isn't thinking deeply enough about the long term direction of the project; all the code they're writing is essentially throwaway code.

This is a strong statement. There are both people who are writing throwaway code and people who are writing essential code that match the description.

And one will never get to be the latter part without going through a phase where they are doing the first.