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LOC is very much an effective metric for general productivity for the median feature. You can't code golf most lines of code out of existence.

We're also assuming LOC vibe coded by competent engineers who should be able to tell when something is overengineered.



Having worked with LLMs, you absolutely can golf most (>50%) lines of code out of existence. I regularly do, because it picks the wrong abstractions and sticks with them.




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