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aisengardtoday at 3:56 AM0 repliesview on HN

It's like everyone forgot that "lines of code" as a productivity metric was a running joke for a decade-plus. The real bottleneck in our work isn't producing boilerplate code, it's producing more or less the right kind of code for the problem at hand, and LLMs, having no real underlying ability to reason, are just not very good at it.