A critique of using Lines of Code as a productivity metric in the age of AI code generation, drawing parallels to Bill Atkinson's famous -2,000 LOC entry in 1982. The author argues that celebrating AI-generated code volume — like Garry Tan's 37,000 LOC/day boast — confuses token burn with value creation and quietly accumulates technical debt and security surface area.
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Garry Tan's celebrated 37,000 LOC/day from AI-generated code is productivity theater that silently accumulates technical debt and security risk — repeating Bill Atkinson's 1982 lesson that code deletion, not generation, creates value.
Saturday, April 4, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LobstersBY sys://pipeline
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