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Re:At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resem... by CuriouslyC on Monday May 26, 2025 @04:00AM (#44095091)
We don't have meaningful metrics that are objective. KLOC is bad but at least it means something concrete, issues closed or PRs submitted is essentially meaningless. This is a software engineering problem not an AI problem.
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Re:At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resem... by talles on Monday May 26, 2025 @06:59AM (#44096138)
KLOC is as objective as your other examples and as meaningless as well IMO.
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Re:At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resem... by CuriouslyC on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:56AM (#44096544)
With "standard" formatting, and considering only legitimate source files, it at least means the same thing from one company or project to another. Sure, it can be gamed by writing bad, verbose code, but in the context of AI generated code, the distribution is squashed quite a bit, so it ends up being more meaningful. Perhaps when we have AI generated issues that will become a better metric as well.
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