They are correlated until you admit to using them in the performance process. Then they’re far too easy to game and become useless. What we haven’t found is an adversary-resistant measure of productivity.
They are absolutely not correlated. Engineers often spend some quarters investigating and fixing scaling issues. This work does not need to a high number of locs.
If your work is merely adding some feature factory or bug fixes, maybe there is a correlation.
If your work is merely adding some feature factory or bug fixes, maybe there is a correlation.