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Re:Ask HN: How much code do you write a day? by flukus on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @03:40AM (#14298363)
> The more LOC you have the higher technical debt you will have and thus to have LOC or scrum points as a metric is basically encouraging technical debt.

There's a correlation, but it's more subtle than that. Often simpler but repetitive code is less technical debt than the less code but more complicated version.

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Re:Ask HN: How much code do you write a day? by aaronarduino on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:08PM (#14301182)
The more complicated and harder to understand the code the longer it takes to change/fix/refactor leading to wasted time.
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