I feel like this is a knee jerk reaction to the hyperbole of the parent comment rather than the contents of the actual linked talks. I'm watching Jonathan Blow'

I feel like this is a knee jerk reaction to the hyperbole of the parent comment rather than the contents of the actual linked talks. I'm watching Jonathan Blow's talk linked above and your comment does not seem relevant to that. Jonathan's points so far seem very reasonable. Rather than arguing for 10000 lines of code it's arguing that there is such a thing as premature code split. Moving code into a separate method has potential drawbacks as well. One suggested alternative is to split reusable code into a local lambda first and lift it into a separate code piece only once we need that code elsewhere. It seems to me that such approach would limit the complexity of the code graph that you need to keep in your head. (Then again, when I think about it maybe the idea isn't really that novel.)