Comment by glouwbug
10 hours ago
Before 2023 I remember everyone here on HN championed that removing lines of code was the strongest senior metric
10 hours ago
Before 2023 I remember everyone here on HN championed that removing lines of code was the strongest senior metric
arent they still? or at least a lot. its too much current to win the swim race against the deluge of llm LOC. but i also disagree with some of the things the author just casually lays out, which is whether the LLMs can write good code. they write working code, but it looks written by a demogorgon and i get a bit ill seeing it. its bad but not bad in a way that a human would ever write, like i dont get that kind of sick reading spaghetti code written by new devs. it's a kind of sick like cthulhus eggs are hatching somewhere in your guts.
Removing lines of code without removing functionality.
Simplification is still good. I remember one senior that only removed code when he joined the company I was at until he became a manager!
Ok, I like the idea and support that seniors value simplicity ... but how the hell do you stay employed for even a month (let alone until "manager time") without writing any code?
You don't just delete stuff… it's more that your pull requests remove more lines than they add. But I'm sure the person you're replying to is exaggerating, or they got promoted because of completely unrelated reasons.
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