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namesbc • yesterday at 2:10 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Software engineers used to know that measuring lines of code written was a poor metric for productivity...

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

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underyx • yesterday at 3:10 AM

Ctrl-F 'lines', 0 results

Ctrl-F 'code', 0 results

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actionfromafar • yesterday at 2:36 AM

So, a free idea from me: train the next coding LLM to produce not regular text, but patches which shortens code while still keeping the code working the same.

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