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I think you are overcorrecting. LOC is highly correlated with productive output. I’m willing to bet on it.

Correlated for sure. But the cause and effect is unclear.

Shipping lots of good code by necessity means you ship lots of code.

Shipping lots of bad code, too.

But if you only know that you are shipping lots of code, which of the two is it?

IOW: by increasing number of shipped LOC, you will not magically make it better.

Plenty of managers have thought the same thing and gotten burned. It doesn’t work with humans engineers nor does it with LLMs.