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JimDabelllast Sunday at 2:51 PM1 replyview on HN

A lot of the Mythical Man-Month is timeless, but for a stat like that, it really is worth bearing in mind the book was written half a century ago about developers working on 1970s mainframes.


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myhflast Sunday at 7:03 PM

Yeah, I think that metric has grown to about 20 lines per day using 2010s-era languages and methods. So maybe we could think of LLM usage as an attempt to bring it back down to 10 per day.