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by brookst 288 days ago
I’m a mediocre C programmer on my best day and I assure you a highly competent programmer could probably use 200 lines of code to do what I achieve in 1300.

Just counting lines is not a good proxy for how much effort it would take a good programmer.

(And I am 100% pro LLM coding, just saying this isn’t a great argument)