I must really suck, because between half and 98% of my programming time is spent making lines of code disappear. I seem to have some kind of horribly mistaken

I must really suck, because between half and 98% of my programming time is spent making lines of code disappear. I seem to have some kind of horribly mistaken impression that I'm doing a good job when the code is more readable, more modular, more functional, and more succinct, all at the same time. I guess you must know something I don't.