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.
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.