Comment by pyrale

> It's surprising to me that people who know about reward hacking choose a simple objective like lines of code generated as a signal for quality.

The simple answer is that promoting locs as a relevant metric is also reward hacking. Is it easier to promote big loc counts as a key metric, or is it easier to prove agentic engineering against harder metrics?

On a more general note, software practice marketers have been pushing in that direction for quite a while. "You need cloud", "Here's how to do agile at scale", "microservice everything", etc.