I really can't agree with this. Sure pure LoC is a bad metric. But there is a correlation between output and LoC. Outside of a very senior developer, maybe a Principal or Lead that is spending all day in architecture meetings and reviewing PRs, most high performers are also outputting code.
"High performers". Can't believe we have normalized this vocabulary, among us, "hackers".
This is exactly what the article is addressing:
> But there is a correlation between output and LoC.
That is less true today than it ever has been, due to LLMs.