[JeremyNT]

I'm another mostly "Home Depot" coder and can glue all kinds of things together without really having to dig deeper. Maybe I could go deeper if I needed to, but that's not what my job demands or requests of me, and what they need is the Home Depot code that bolts all their existing systems together.

I think those of us in roles like this can actually bang out a lot more LOC than somebody working on lower level problems, because we aren't solving hard problems, we're using basic data structures and tossing them between (usually/hopefully) well documented interfaces. If that's the case, LOC is just about the worst metric you could imagine.