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AI Changed The Perception Of Lines Of Code
- AI coding tools made lines-of-code suddenly measurable and inflated, so old arguments against LOC resurfaced when people could instantly produce larger outputs.
- ThePrimeagen argues developers' workflow changed overnight, causing many to reinterpret LOC as meaningful because newcomers now get huge output gains.
Tooling Drives What Developers Defend
- People adapt their rationalizations to whatever tooling makes a practice easy, so critiques of past practices disappear when new tools enable them.
- ThePrimeagen notes this pattern repeats across paradigms like OOP, React, and now AI-driven coding.
Commit Tracker Accidentally Gamified Engineers
- Casey described an internal tool that tracked commits and LOC and turned it into an inadvertent gamified contest that boosted team coding output.
- He observed engineers obsessively checking the leaderboard and coding more to reach the top-right of the graph.
