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"Lines of code are a liability, not an asset."

wrong framing imo

EXCESS lines of code are a liability.

Code of course is an asset.. what other real asset is producing cash-flows? lol come on.

It's apples and oranges. Lines of code is just a measurement. You can't look at a whole codebase and say "these X lines are essential, those Y lines are excess, delete those" -- the lines interact with each other to create the whole thing.

It would be like saying "Weight in kilograms of course is an asset for an airplane. That's what keeps it in the air. What other real asset is the airplane made of?"

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