1) One SF wifi mgmt. software startup had a 50,000 LOC product with 250,000 lines of test code. They seemed content, but obviously a lot of resources went into

1) One SF wifi mgmt. software startup had a 50,000 LOC product with 250,000 lines of test code. They seemed content, but obviously a lot of resources went into tests. 2) Many late startups in SF spent a lot of time and effort on perfecting CI/CD software (multiple years), or struggling with k8s in the early days (1 year to finish one service.) 3) Often post-founder programmers these days have a lot of process to overcome before shipping. I know one startup that hired dozens of programmers, but the founder (alone) still writes most of the code.