[killjoywashere]

> I have never actually met anyone who has worked in a LOC-optimized company.

Not only that, but the higher-level concept I took away is that, given the size of his features (~6k loc), it takes about 75 days to write a feature. Assuming those are workdays, that's 15 weeks, a little over a quarter. And, indeed, tech companies do seem to measure their process and projections in quarters, and everything tends to slip to the right a bit, on average.

Also, the code coverage numbers line up with other estimates I've seen: life-critical systems should have upwards of 95% code coverage. Standard project: 85-90% coverage.