I should add that the idea complexity relates to LoC is also nonsense. Everyone that's been doing this for a while knows that what kills people are those one line errors which make assumptions about the values they are handling due to the surrounding code.
Isn't that exactly how Google's latest big cloud outage happened?
EDIT: referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274563
I should add that the idea complexity relates to LoC is also nonsense. Everyone that's been doing this for a while knows that what kills people are those one line errors which make assumptions about the values they are handling due to the surrounding code.