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Yes. Which is why "I generated X lines of code" "I used a billion tokens this month" sound stupid to me.

Like I used 100 gallons of petrol this month and 10 kilos of rabbit feed!

The same people that pursue economic incentives are who I hear speaking about number of lines produced by developers as a useful metric. I sense a worrying trend toward more is better with respect to output, when the north star IMHO should be to make something only as complex as necessary, but as simple as possible. The best code is no code at all.

People use stupid metrics like those because more useful ones, like "productivity" or "robustness" are pretty much impossible to objectively measure.

And because the other easy one, revenue, is not so impressive.

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