Lines of code got a better publicist(curlewis.co.nz)
417 points by RyeCombinator | 288 comments
A blog post by David Curlewis arguing that AI-era productivity metrics are repackaging lines of code as a measure of developer output.
#lines-of-code on Hacker News
2 stories tagged lines-of-code, newest first.
-2000 Lines of code (2004)(folklore.org)
512 points by xeonmc | 222 comments
Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org story about Bill Atkinson reporting -2000 lines of code on a Lisa team productivity form in 1982.