[IIsi50MHz]

You can, but then "The cake is a lie.", because linecount and bug rate, when concieved as proxies for productivity[1] or quality rarely match up with reality in a way that allows you to make predictions or reason about past outcomes.

You can reason about frequency of particular types bugs, such as null pointers or overflow, or whether those bugs can occur at all.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html