I was at a company once where they didn’t understand how bad this metric was. They worshipped this one guy who would work all night and have a record number of lines of code changed.
They thought he was a programming god.
I realized he knew how to do “refactor” in his IDE, and every day the class hierarchy would change
I so hope this is fake, because this is so stupid, even by Space Karen standards.
Wasn’t he firing people based on number of, or lack of, code commits at one point? Even if this isn’t real, it’s still very on-brand.
Lines of code too iirc. This is about equally accurate.
My most productive days have ended with negative LOC. It’s such a trash metric that only someone that’s never been a developer could dream up.
I was at a company once where they didn’t understand how bad this metric was. They worshipped this one guy who would work all night and have a record number of lines of code changed.
They thought he was a programming god.
I realized he knew how to do “refactor” in his IDE, and every day the class hierarchy would change
That’s what this is satirizing, yeah
Wait this is satire?
Yeah, it’s hilariously close to the truth.
He was also doing that examination by having people print out the code for him to read apparently