Yesterday I probably wrote 8 or 9 lines of code. That was all the problem at hand required. However, getting to that 8 or 9 lines of code took hours of conversa

Yesterday I probably wrote 8 or 9 lines of code. That was all the problem at hand required. However, getting to that 8 or 9 lines of code took hours of conversation with various people as well as a few more hours of research, fact-checking and bench-marking. Last week I had a day where I probably generated 25,000 lines of code. The generator probably took up 400 or so lines itself. Because I wrote the generator, do I get to say that I created the 25k lines? The small amount of code I wrote yesterday was vastly more important that the generated code I wrote last week. Which day was more valuable? Lines of code is a worthless measure. [Edited for tone]