[MichaelCrawford]

back in the day, some clueless manager posted to usenet that he was looking for a coder who could - I swear I'm not making this up! - "write 1000 lines of code per day".

I'm sure you can visualize all the responses that were posted.

[manifestsilence]

Clearly they were looking for this guy: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Got_Time_0x3f_

[davidgerard]

Now, if they could average minus 1000 lines per day ...

[ConceptJunkie]

Yes, for almost every existing project I've ever worked on, I had a net negative line of code count per day, and boy did that feel good.

[entelechy0]

There are some days (like today) where this is the norm at my company...

[therealdrag0]

I started on my current project 10 months ago, and using gitinspector [1], I can see I've averaged 10k lines a month, but after deletions and refactors, about 40% of that remains. This is working on a green field project and never exceeding 40 hours a week. It's also 'losing' coding time to research (I'm a junior dev) and managing / training other team members. So I could see a much higher number of lines than this being feasible.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/gitinspector/