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As Dijkstra once opined in 1988: "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent":
by Veserv 9mo ago
As Dijkstra once opined in 1988: "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger."
- cedws 9mo agoIn an adage: code is a liability, not an asset.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoAs a fun exercise, I tried to see how close I could get to Cursor's results without using any Rust crates, and by making the agent actually care about the code. End results: 20K LOC for a browser that more or less works the same, on three platforms, leveraging commonly available system libraries and no 3rd party Rust crates: https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/ https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522) I'm not entirely sure what the millions of lines of code is supposedly doing.