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>>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.

>>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.

>>smoe+x9
Microsoft never got that memo. They still measure LoC because it’s all MBAs.

>>reacto+4a
Fuck is there a way to have that degree and not be clueless and toxic to your colleagues and users.

>>walt_g+iq
They seem better at working in finance and managing money.

Most models of productivity look like factories with inputs, outputs, and processes. This is just not how engineering or craftsmanship happen.

>>ground+pu
It's because the purpose of engineering is to engineer a solution. Their purpose is to create profit, engineering gets in the way.