Comment by tabs_or_spaces
6 days ago
> In the last 60 days I have written over 600,000 lines of production code — 35% tests — and I am doing 10,000 to 20,000 usable lines of code per day as a part-time part of my day while doing all my duties as CEO of YC.
LOC will never be a good metric of software engineering. Why do we keep accepting this?
I can generate 1 million LOC if I really wanted to.
As long as LOC is the main metric for these setups, they will never be successful.
LOC is a very-very weak proxy of "how many new features" I've built, and they don't have any other metric that can be measured easily. But it causes serious issues, because equating LOC with productivity leads to inevitable utter bloat, that no agent or human can ever rectify in a meaningful timeframe. I'm pretty sure this 600 000??? LOC could be shrinked to 60 K for the same feature set, but with better readability and performance.
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