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the number of lines you write is almost irrelevant. People need to put the equal sign between lines of code written and productivity. Some of the most awesome a
by mirceal 4y ago
the number of lines you write is almost irrelevant. People need to put the equal sign between lines of code written and productivity. Some of the most awesome and productive people I've worked with actually removed more code than they wrote. Code is a liability. There is no code like no code. Focus on the problem not the number of lines of code
- gernb 4y agoI suppose it was my bad for using lines-of-code as a metric. What meant to convey is I feel like I've done the same amount of work in 10 days on hobby projects as 9 months on work projects. The difference to me is the hobby project is 100% my code and relatively small (25k lines total, 2k lines in last 10 days). Vs the work project which is 1000+ developers, no idea how many lines but at least 250k files. So, my point is, is it possible that often (not always) 10x programmers are preceived to be 10x because they are in a situation that allows them to be productive (maybe a smaller code base, maybe a code base they are super familiar with, maybe a new project so new code meaning it's their code, no someone else's) etc...
- mirceal 4y agoyup. coding in a group setting is harder than coding on your own. Also productivity is whatever you want to make of it. Some people may feel really productive by tweaking a system to squeeze that extra 2% perf, some people may feel productive by writing code, some people may feel productive by enabling others. there is no silver bullet and putting things in perspective always helps :)