We're back to using LOC as a productivity metric because LLMs are best at cranking out thousands of LOC really fast. Personal experience I had a colleague use Claude Code top create a PR consisting of a dozen files and thousands of line of code for something that could have been done in a couple hundred LOC in a single file.
yahoozoo|4 months ago
shurane|4 months ago
CharlesW|4 months ago
Can you point me to anyone who knows what they're talking about declaring that LOC is the best productivity metric for AI-assisted software development?
chipsrafferty|4 months ago
Can you point me to where the author of this article gives any proof to the claim of 10x increased productivity other than the screenshot of their git commits, which shows more squares in recent weeks? I know git commits could be net deleting code rather than adding code, but that's still using LOC, or number of commits as a proxy to it, as a metric.