Quite. Code is a liability. LOC is an utterly idiotic metric of programmer contribution, as it incentivizes increasing liability, over all sorts of other better contributions like good design, more automation, mentoring, customer obsession, etc.

(And for those arguing that “but the least amount of lines is not necessarily best”, yes, of course, that can obscure logic; the point isn’t to flip the value of LOC as a metric, the point is to not treat it as a good metric).