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 When working with devs on security issues one of the first things I ask is "Is this code actually used?" and "No" is a surprisingly common response. Sadly the common next step is seeing the devs commenting out the code rather than deleting it and letting source control handle it :(