One thing to consider is if the programmer "owns" the code through deployment into production. If that is the case then the focus is working software not LOC o

One thing to consider is if the programmer "owns" the code through deployment into production. If that is the case then the focus is working software not LOC or story points or velocity or tickets closed. It's much better to have a flow that allows for continuous delivery of working software with monitoring, etc. rather than focusing on counts of things that don't matter. Do customers care about how many story points happened last sprint? If management is focusing more on metrics than working software - then they will get people to focus on that as well over working software.