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1. onion2+O4[view] [source] 2026-02-02 12:38:58
>>Anon84+(OP)
Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code." You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.
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2. smoe+x9[view] [source] 2026-02-02 13:06:37
>>onion2+O4
It is kind of funny that throughout my career, there has always been pretty much a consensus that lines of code are a bad metric, but now with all the AI hype, suddenly everybody is again like “Look at all the lines of code it writes!!”

I use LLMs all day every day, but measuring someone or something by the number of lines of code produced is still incredibly stupid, in my opinion.

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3. reacto+4a[view] [source] 2026-02-02 13:09:57
>>smoe+x9
Microsoft never got that memo. They still measure LoC because it’s all MBAs.
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4. Findec+Yr[view] [source] 2026-02-02 14:56:46
>>reacto+4a
If so, it hasn't always been that way. Steve Ballmer on IBM and KLoC's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0

(I think it is from "Triumph of the Nerds" (1996), but I can't find the time code)

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