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Everyone needs to hit 100,000 LOC this week to hit our target from marketing

Here is one line of code to solve all of their software problems:

rm -rf /

As a programmer who strongly believes in less being more, remind me to never buy a Merc.

Because some marketing guru thought that it's a great idea to advertise it that way? Common...they are great cars

These things are quite random, because most likely they counted also all dependencies in - including LoC for OS kernel, all libraries, etc. And how much LoC is boost alone? :D

At one undiscovered bug per KLOc, that's basically advertising that their software is a disastrous ball of mud.

KLOC are something you spend, a debt you accumulate.

Sounds like it's full of spaghetti code.