I know, it's a stupid metric, but in a discussion with another Arsian the topic of lines of code per day came up. Thinking about it, I reckoned the average developer can do 300 - 500 lines of code a ...

One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...

Most artificial intelligence systems can be advanced by adding more: more computing power, more lines of code, more analysis, more neural networks, more machine learning. With only five lines of code, ...

In 2022, this series was expanded into a book, edited by Torie Bosch. Read “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World here. Back in 2009, Facebook launched a ...

Decades ago, we abandoned the practice of measuring developers for the number of lines of code they developed. We realized it was too easy to game the system by writing bloated code that reduced value ...

Source Lines Of Code (SLOC) is a software metric used to measure the size of a software program by counting the number of lines in the text of the program’s source code. SLOC is typically used to ...