In the 2020s, we still have software engineering managers that think of LOC as a success metric. “How long would it take you to type the 6 hours work of diff?”

In the 2020s, we still have software engineering managers that think of LOC as a success metric. “How long would it take you to type the 6 hours work of diff?” is a great question to force the cognitively lazy software manager to figure out how naive that is. Nowadays I feel great when my PRs have more lines removed than added. And I really question if the added code was worth the added value if it’s the opposite.