Comment by lelanthran
20 hours ago
> So "200 lines" captures the concept but not the production reality of what is involved.
How many lines would you estimate it takes to capture that production reality of something like CC? I ask because I got downvoted for asking that question on a different story[1].
I asked because in that thread someone quoted the CC dev(s) as saying:
>> In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed.
My feeling is that a tool like this, while it won't be 200 lines, can't really be 40k lines either.
[1] If anyone is interested, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46533132
My guess is <5k for a coherent and intentional expert human design. Certainly <10k.
It’s telling that they can’t fix the screen flickering issue, claiming “the problem goes deep.”