Lines of code were a joke metric for 40 years. AI gave them a better publicist (curlewis.co.nz)
The post skewers a survey of 219 engineering leaders that produced 219 definitions of "AI-native." An OpenAI blog post bragged twice that an internal tool hit a million lines — without once saying what the tool does.
An engineer who works on the JDK at Oracle delivered the quiet correction: the rebrand is already collapsing, because CEOs noticed they were paying for code by the line and the lines weren't turning into profit.
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