Comment by threethirtytwo
15 hours ago
Because sloppy code and doesn't matter. He wrote he completed it in 1/10th time. That's equivalent to 1/10th the engineers.
That is a business win. That is really all that matters in capitalism.
The flex is a direct insult to your face. He is shitting on the faces of all software engineers (me included). It is equivalent to saying we don't need you to code anymore. One man can produce 10x the code.
So why am i voting him up even though he's shitting on my face? Because what he says is true. I value honesty and people who say things like it is. Yes my identity as a software engineer is getting dismantled before my very eyes. But the solution to this problem isn't some delusional statement about not understanding what he's flexing about. We're not stupid. Everyone on this thread understands his flex. The difference is some people like you don't want to understand it.
Like seriously. He literally wrote it was completed in 1/10th of the time and you expect me to believe that YOU don't know what HE is flexing about? Be real. You're not stupid.
The real flex is delivering it in one-tenth of the time. Mentioning lines of code is mostly noise.
I’ve worked with 20-year-old codebases and products that grew organically over decades and still sit well below a million lines of code. Using LOC as some kind of health or success metric makes me more suspicious than impressed.