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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut. Credit...Mojo Wang Supported by By Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith Reporting from San Francisco When a financial services company recently began using ...

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 ...

You will stay at the surface of things if the goal is just to remove LOC from a single method. It's just style, indeed. What should matter is defining levels of abstraction, removing LOCs from the ...

Elon Musk says the future of software development may no longer involve traditional lines of code as AI takes on more programming tasks. However, rising demand for experienced developers suggests the ...