imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST
at my old job, engineers would sometimes have LOC in the negatives and that was a point of pride

@molly0xfff Indeed, good teams reduce (legacy) code. One of my teams reduced from 1.5Mloc to 300Kloc in 7 years (using different techniques):

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-your-team-needs-code-down-target-dirk-jan-swagerman