• jonne@infosec.pub
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      11 months ago

      My most productive days have ended with negative LOC. It’s such a trash metric that only someone that’s never been a developer could dream up.

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        11 months ago

        I was at a company once where they didn’t understand how bad this metric was. They worshipped this one guy who would work all night and have a record number of lines of code changed.

        They thought he was a programming god.

        I realized he knew how to do “refactor” in his IDE, and every day the class hierarchy would change