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np1810today at 3:15 AM0 repliesview on HN

I just read somewhere on HN that "code is a liability, not an asset, the idea behind the code/final product is the actual asset." And, I can't agree more...

> It is so embarrassing that LOC is being used as a metric for engineering output.

In one of my previous org, LOC added in the previous year was a metric used to find out a good engineer v/s a PIP (bad) engineer. Also, LOC removed was treated as a negative metric for the same. I hope they've changed this methodology for LLM code-spitting era...