100k Lines of Code

I’ve “written” 100k lines of code in the last 6 weeks.

Is some of it crap? Yes. Is it bloated? Yes. Is there tech debt that needs to be cleaned up and refactored? Yes. Is some of this code doing stuff I don’t understand fully? Yes. Will there be difficult bugs to find because of all of this? Yes.

However, I’d never written 100k lines of code in a year, let alone 6 weeks.

NOTE: Lines of code is a terrible metric to measure a developer and the code itself. It’s a little bit like rating a driver by how many miles they drove today — it provides some scale, but says nothing about efficiency, quality, etc.

And my current role is “project manager.” I’m not technically a developer in this organization.

Some see this as we’re heading for disaster. Some see it as unlocking the potential of everyone.

I see it as something to master.