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LOC is the worst metric for engineering output, except for all the others - Churchill

• deadbabe 5mo ago
  The amount of times an engineer says what the fuck while reading code still seems like a reliable metric for code quality assessment.
  • AnimalMuppet 5mo ago
    Somewhat reliable, yes. Not objective, though, and hard to reproduce.
    • deadbabe 5mo ago
      In a world where everything is vibes now that doesn’t matter much.
  • dyauspitr 5mo ago
    We won’t be doing that for much longer, enjoy it while you can.
    • seanw444 5mo ago
      Two more weeks!
    • deadbabe 5mo ago
      I’m sure an agent can audibly play “what the fuck” as it crunches tokens reading through a codebase