alt Hacker NewsIt’s interesting but I think it’s measuring the wrong thing. Abstraction is a fundamental principle in software. As a human, I’ve worked with classes and modules far larger than what fits in my head, just because I’m only fitting the function signatures and purpose into my head, and not the implementation details. In practice I find Claude really good at extracting useful information in a human-like way from a codebase. It doesn’t usually stuff the entire codebase into its context window.
Also this rewards dynamic languages over typed languages, penalizes comments, descriptive function names, etc. Though frankly, it'd be interesting to see whether AI would work better with a project in Javascript that barely fits in context, or the same thing in typescript that overflows. I could imagine either, but my guess is "it depends". Though, "depends on what" would be interesting to know.
Still, this seems useful for being able to see at a glance. I have no idea where most of my own projects would land.