alt Hacker NewsAI approaches can churn code more than a human would.
Lines of code has always been a questionable metric of velocity, and AI makes that more true than ever.
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fzysingularity • last Wednesday at 9:25 PM
I'd love to see Claude Code remove more lines than it added TBH.
There's a ton of cruft in code that humans are less inclined to remove because it just works, but imagine having LLM doing the clean up work instead of the generation work.
Even discounting lines of code:
- get a feature request/bug
- understand the problem
- think on a solution
- deliver the solution
- test
- submit to code review, including sufficient explanation, and merge when ready
260 PRs a month means the cycle above is happening once per hour, at constant speed, for 60 hours work weeks.