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ecshafertoday at 5:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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strix_variustoday at 6:36 PM

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.

dakioltoday at 7:53 PM

"High performers". Can't believe we have normalized this vocabulary, among us, "hackers".

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