[cosmiccatnap]

Strangely enough I think this is the first objectively bad decision he has made since owning Twitter. The others are questionable for sure but this is a good way to lose your best engineers to companies that will respect them.

[izzydata]

I think blindly firing employees with low code counts is an objectively bad decision that ignores a lot of nuance and likely lost a lot of great engineers to companies that will respect them.

[e40]

The idea that all lines of code are equal (in difficulty) is so absurd as to (in my memory) have been never discussed on HN before. Everyone here knows it. How could Elon not?

[bitcharmer]

I've heard this before but never backed by any reputable source.

Mind sharing where you got that from?

[the_doctah]

Is there any evidence that people were fired based on LoC?

[fragmede]

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1588907407002185729#...