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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, we published an article advocating the merits of lines of code as a productivity metric for software development after Elon Musk reportedly asked Twitter engineers to present him with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that Facebook as well as Twitter is cutting engineers, and with Google likely to follow, the question of the moment is how you identify engineers to cut. At Twitter, as well as at some banks, the ...