Number of lines of code written is a shitty metric to measure productivity.

I'm just a hobbyist, but I'm always more proud of commits that remove stuff.

People who've never reviewed a PR be like. Wow green number big, is good.

Didn’t you hear? We’re going back to KLOC for measurement of productivity.

those aren't upvotes?

You reminded me of a story I recently read, where the author highlighted just how much awesome programming someone had done by describing how their hands were cramping up.

It's like estimating how well an artist paints by looking at how much paint is on their clothes, or judging how good a cook is by how many cuts and burns they have. The actions that cause those things are incidental to the process, not central, and an excessive amount points to incompetence, not hard and skillful work.

Might as well be bragging about pictures they've taken of their bowel movements.

Big Diff Energy

Please tell me this subreddit is satire

I love the https and port 80 combo. Really sells the incompetence.

Goddammit, I clicked.

That page is filthy. You should be ashamed of yourself.

pointing to 80 port was the salt in the wound, i presume?

Theres too many s's in https

They just forgot to include "no bugs" in the prompt.

About 6 months to replace devs since 2023.

Let n be a natural number, and b be the time to the next major extinction event.

ms themselves confirmed it, "bragging" that 30% of windows updates are written by ai

It's the difference between checking for questions in stack overflow and implementing solutions VS pasting every SO solution blindly until something works.

I do use autocomplete and ask plenty questions, sometimes even use an agent so it makes small changes that I then review and test, but I would never commit unchecked changes, and a claude.md implies that the AI is coding AND committing without supervision.

I can't stress enough how different those scenarios are.

It's not hypocritical. Because you use AI to code, you know how easy it is to just let the AI do it's thing and not check it's work. It's almost like a sirens song. So you know the odds that a library that was coded with AI probably wasn't checked by a human. That's just called experience.

more tokens

= more money for Amazon = more profitssss.

1000 lines isn't that unreasonable for a PR. Commit size matters more.

If you write tests and add features you can easily go up to 1000, don’t know what you're talking about

I know what context they are looking at and I don't need to make a twitter account to view the relevant replies.

I just make some shell scripts to automate boilerplate.
That way, once I have properly debugged it, I know it will give the correct output everytime in the future and I don't need to keep checking it.