Comment by mynameisvlad

I can whip out 100 lines of bullshit in a few seconds. I can just paste in whatever Copilot gives me and as long as it builds call it a day.

It will take me far longer to come up with the correct 100 lines that is both maintainable and can be worked on by others down the line.

I can pad my lines of code in seconds if I wanted to before pushing the changes. That padding provides no business value and might even introduce bugs.

And how do you handle refactoring? If I come in and refactor everyone else's shitty padding by combining helpers and optimizing code, I'll have negative lines of code. Am I an unproductive worker?

Sure, most code is not some complex algorithm but lines of code is a stupid metric that is not representative of the work done and can be gamed by anyone knowing what they're doing.