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Re:Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers by codemac on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:48PM (#34371208)
Being able to work in a large organization to accomplish goals smaller organizations could not is one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind.

The part that is arguable is whether or not smaller organizations could accomplish the same.

I have a hypothesis that it's literally just LOC. The more lines of code, the more SWE you need to be stewards of that code, the bigger the bureaucracy.

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Re:Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers by twblalock on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:18PM (#34373315)
It’s not LOC, it’s the architecture.
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Re:Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers by SethMurphy on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:18PM (#34376702)
Seems like you both mean the same thing, complexity, a new acronym might be needed "Compound Lines Of Code (CLOC)".
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Re:Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers by codemac on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:20PM (#34415369)
I actually don't, but that's another interesting hypothesis.

My hyothesis is that all these "simple" lines of code that are 1000s and 1000s of lines of code, are actually a burden and produce bureaucracy.

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