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by conartist6 183 days ago
It's a shame that the AI branch is the software engineering industry is so determined to make us look like compete fools.

WHY ARE THEY STILL TALKING ABOUT ADDING LINES OF CODE IF THEY KNOW HOW SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY SCALES.

I could not put it more simply: you don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore. Too many asinine things have been done like this line-of-code-counting BS for me to not see I it as attempted fraud.

Something we know for sure is that the most productive engineers are usually neutral or negative on lines of code. Bad ones who are costing your business money by cranking out debt: those amp up you number of lines

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I cannot believe how often I have to call out ostensibly smart AI people for saying shit that is obviously not literally true.

It's like they all forgot how to think, or that other people can spot right where and then they stopped thinking critically and started to go with the hype. Many lines of code good! Few lines of code bad!