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> whereas good senior engineers often remove as much code as they add https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html https://www.folklore.org/Negati
by jihadjihad 1y ago
> whereas good senior engineers often remove as much code as they add
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
- MisterTea 1y ago"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson
- sevenseacat 1y agooh yes I've had times like this. Recently I was looking at building a gnarly form, that had some really complex interactions and data behind it. It just kept being subtly buggy in all different ways. I threw Claude at it, went down so many rabbit holes, it was convinced there were bugs in all the different frameworks and libraries I was using because it couldn't find the issue in the code (that it had written most of). After a couple of days of tearing my hair out, I eventually dug in and rewrote it from first principles myself. The code afterwards was so much shorter, so much clearer, and worked a hell of a lot better (not going to say perfectly, but, well, haven't had a single issue with it since).