It takes an entire business to publish a software product, not just engineers. It’s been a misdirection to blame engineering for productivity issues. If anything, the legal team contributes much more of the sloth, complexity and lethargy than the engineering team.

Legal has much more authority , and far less familiarity with the product. The result are orthogonal, complicated and impractical requirements that are not even usually necessary for risk mitigation.

It’s not a simple LOC/day formula. If Southwest Airlines wanted to make major software improvements tomorrow, it certainly wouldn’t be the engineering team armed with Claude Code holding them back.