I completely agree that using a median LOC over 12 or so months is much more representative. My point was that many times, especially when you are a senior prog

I completely agree that using a median LOC over 12 or so months is much more representative. My point was that many times, especially when you are a senior programmer, you have a ton of other stuff to do like making or curating issues in Jira / GitHub, produce or edit documentation, make onboarding guides, introduce dev tooling, and many more. Normal coding can seriously take a back seat for literal months when you are senior and yet you still produce a lot of value. So yep, with your clarification I am fully with you. As long as we measure people over a long enough timeline then yes, LOC can be an accurate metric. But a lot of other things have to be taken into account as well.