Why "lines of code" is a broken metric

Most productivity metrics are a lie. Lines of code has always been a bad metric, but many folks still use lines of code as some proxy for output or productivity or complexity or something. Well, now, for many of the systems that uses lines of code, it's just blown out of the water. Because if the goal is more lines of code, I can prompt something to write the longest piece of code ever and add tons of comments. And you know, we know that agents and LLMs tend to be very verbose by definition, and so it's just too easy to gain that system and then introduce complexity and technical debt into all of the work that you're doing.