I had a similar reaction. If I'm healthy, I can routinely ship 1-2k LOC per week. I sort of regret that at times, because I think we could be just as productiv

I had a similar reaction. If I'm healthy, I can routinely ship 1-2k LOC per week. I sort of regret that at times, because I think we could be just as productive (in terms of useful product) with many fewer LOC, but we are stuck with the constraints we live in. OTOH, I've worked (incredibly frustrating) jobs where the infrastructure is dysfunctional such that the write-compile-test cycles are on the order of tens of minutes, and these have made my LOC/week plummet. In those cases, I've recommended to management that we fix the infrastructure to get down to sub-minute cycles (ideally a few seconds), but usually these have been shot down due to their extreme myopia.