It has some merit when you are comparing different solutions. For example (and I know people loathe python on here, I'm just using it for the sake of example, please bear with me), writing a simple web service in python takes fewer lines of code than doing the same in say, Rust.

This doesn't imply that a language is better than another, it's just an objective fact one might find useful to keep in mind.

The article's usage is admittedly clickbait, another recent article that popped up on the home page was titled something to the effect of "Speech Recognition in 100 lines of C++". Predictably, it turned out that they depend on a multi-million-line library.