Molly Whiteimagine 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
cognomen@molly0xfff I've gone on crazy deep-dives to optimize this or that and the PR is maybe 1 or two lines.
It doesn't tell the story of all of the iterations, all of the spelunking, all of the running in hallways away from monsters like in Scooby-Doo.
Ben Tasker@cognomen @molly0xfff I've lost count of the number of times I've had to help senior mgmt understand why it took someone days to change a single line of code and fix a bug.
naught101@cognomen @molly0xfff wrote 500 lines, then realised there was a better way to do it, so deleted 600 lines and wrote 50 new ones. Pretty normal week of work for anyone even slightly introspective.
MurphysicalAbsolutely.
I spent days rewriting one line of PLC code for an encoder.
But I finally got it perfect and it felt great.
The next day I wrote the other 99% of the code and finished the machine.
I can only imagine Twitter.