alt Hacker NewsTotally. I thought Simon was wiser than this; even he couldn't resist getting swept up by breathless hype. The moment you start typing "LOC as a metric", alarm bells should go off in your head.
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Daishiman • today at 5:08 PM
LOC is very much an effective metric for general productivity for the median feature. You can't code golf most lines of code out of existence.
We're also assuming LOC vibe coded by competent engineers who should be able to tell when something is overengineered.
This was a podcast, not a pre-scripted talk. I suggest listening to the audio version - it makes it more clear that this was thinking out loud, not carefully considering every word.