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Looking through these text messages, if you take a look at the final one Elon texts about the informed productivity of twitter engineers. I'm wondering if Elon
by jerojero 4y ago
Looking through these text messages, if you take a look at the final one Elon texts about the informed productivity of twitter engineers. I'm wondering if Elon Musk is misinformed or what's going on; I'm thinking he is referring to lines that actually go into production or something of that nature which I imagine would go through intensive review and so on?
Because 100 lines of code a month, not to mention that LoC is a poor metric of performance anyway, still seems like very little work.
What do you guys think? Is this an accurate measure for twitter engineer's productivity?
- metadat 4y agoWe can't even know if these messages are authentic or not. Other than that, I agree on a bad day I might pump out only 100 lines, but on a good day it can be 1,000-2,000 lines. LoC isn't really a good metric by itself, because as every great hacker knows: Hours of planning can save days or even weeks of programming. Understanding the problem domain is vertically essential.
- dekhn 4y agoI'm more interested in the engineers who are removing 100 LOC a week and making the system simpler and more reliable. Musk is definitely not one you should listen to for advice about software engineering. Or rather, his mental model of software engineering is very big on "a small number of geniuses solving impossible problems to make a breakthrough" which is only a tiny fraction of the total effort in the software engineering space.