Comment by sshine

> sucks being that person today because everything is about optics

Not everywhere. I’ve casually suggested five big changes to the startup I’m currently working for that others ran with. I’m proud that my ideas even make sense, and my reward is that others come to me for leadership. I would get more glory if I had also carried them out. But I’d rather do the things that others can’t, than what shines the most.

> 2000 lines of code per week terrifies me... That's over 100K lines of code a year

That would be incredible (and scary). But productive people I’ve seen the contributor metrics for who write vastly more than they read, still have a number of deleted lines growing with their added lines in some proportion.

There is a style of less re-use, more copy-pasting that just grows faster but also needs constant refactoring in trivial ways.