I Wrote 162k Lines of Code in the Past 24 Days
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Discussion around a developer's claim of writing 162k lines of code in 24 days and the skepticism around using lines of code as a metric.
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Animux
4 months ago
Lines of code is a pretty bad metric.
nomilkAuthor
4 months ago
Thread: https://twitter-thread.com/t/1966471166773842317
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