> you might have figured out that changing your Resume from using phrases like “I worked on a Java codebase of around 100k LoC, using Spring and React” to ones more like “I built a widget-shipping feature that shipped 300k widgets and ultimately created $1 million in business value” is a good way of ‘creating value’ in concrete sense of a higher paying job.

Is that actually true, in other people's experience? I would have thought that most people involved in tech hiring would prefer the first version — at least it tells me what technologies you're familiar with. The second one just tells me what somebody else did with your code. Sure, they sold a lot of widgets, but I'd guess that has a lot more to with the quality of the widget than with the quality of your software