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Comment by mrweasel

9 days ago

When people mentions the number of lines of code, I've started to become suspicious. More often than not it's X number of lines, calling a massive library loading a large model, either locally or remote. We're just waiting for spinning up your entire company infrastructure in two lines of code, and then just being presented a Terraform shell script wrapper.

I do agree with the use of serverless though. I feel like we agree long ago that serverless just means that you're not spinning up a physical or virtual server, but simply ask some cloud infrastructure to run your code, without having to care about how it's run.

> When people mentions the number of lines of code, I've started to become suspicious.

Low LoC count is a telltale sign that the project adds little to no value. It's a claim that the project integrates third party services and/or modules, and does a little plumbing to tie things together.