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Re:Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer th... by Daishiman on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:08PM (#48038674)
LOC is very much an effective metric for general productivity for the median feature. You can't code golf most lines of code out of existence.

We're also assuming LOC vibe coded by competent engineers who should be able to tell when something is overengineered.

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Re:Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer th... by jbeninger on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:55AM (#48060920)
Having worked with LLMs, you absolutely can golf most (>50%) lines of code out of existence. I regularly do, because it picks the wrong abstractions and sticks with them.
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