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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by andix on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:17AM (#25228064)
From my experience, and just a rule of thumb:

If you give a bug to a software developer to fix, the good software developer will probably rewrite some code and in the end the LOC count will be the same or less. The bad/lazy software developer will glue some fix on top of the bug and add additional LOCs.

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by tannhaeuser on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:45AM (#25228248)
Depends. Sometimes software is so convoluted that you're sparing yourself and your colleagues a lot of trouble by adding that one liner rather than doing a big refactoring, especially in the absence of tests.
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