📝 On the LOC controversy https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/… happened when I mentioned how many lines of code I've been shipping, and what the numbers actually say. The critique is right. LOC is a garbage metric. Every senior engineer knows it. Dijkstra wrote in 1988 that lines of code shouldn’t be counted as “lines produced” but as “lines spent” (On the cruelty of really teaching computing science, EWD1036). The old line (widely attributed to…