[Chanel_Bunnell]

>Writing lots of code quickly is not a good thing. You shouldn’t be writing more than a few lines of code per day. And if your editor is helping you write a lot of code really quickly, it’s encouraging you to write bad code.

Here speaks a man who has never worked on a green field project, never built something from start to finish, never had to write more than a few lines of code a day.

How many programmers would it take to build a new version 1 product if they're all writing just a few lines of code a day? Would 10,000 do the trick, with six months to finish? There's a time to talk, discuss, prepare, plan, draw stuff on whiteboards, etc. And then there's the other time, when you sit down and build the product, which means writing all the code.

I'm not talking about an app that displays a random number, in which case, fire away with your few lines a day, and you'll be up and running in a few days. I'm talking about products with a capital P.

I'm starting the coding work on a new version of an existing product the week after next, and I'll be spending 15 solid 8 hour days writing code. I've made the plans, sat in the meetings, tossed more than half the features over board. And now comes the time to actually build it -- or at least, a first iteration of it before I get hit with user feedback.

[n1ghtmare_]

This, a million times !