Comment by greggyb
8 days ago
The post is about using LOC as a metric when making any sort of point about AI. Nowhere do I suggest someone shouldn't use it, nor that they should expect negative results if they opt to.
8 days ago
The post is about using LOC as a metric when making any sort of point about AI. Nowhere do I suggest someone shouldn't use it, nor that they should expect negative results if they opt to.
No one I’ve ever worked with in 40 years has ever seriously used loc as a measurement of progress or success. I honestly don’t know where this comes from.
That’s the odd psychosis here. Everyone knew loc was a terrible measure. But perhaps the instinctual pull was always there, and now that you can generate halfway coherent tens of thousands of loc in hours, our sensibilities are overwhelmed.
Yes, but it comes up in conversations of LLMs a lot. Thus, the rant in question. I think we are in agreement, or at least we lack disagreement, because that is the only stance I endeavored to take in the post.