In case you haven’t seen it yet:
https://movq.de/v/89c2e025ce/torvalds.mp4
Linus Torvalds about SLOC as a measurement of productivity. 😅
can somebody please transcribe what he said and post it here? 🙏 I think it’s too good just to waste in a video it needs to be preserved. 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net Here you go:
(LTT = “Linus Tech Tips”, that’s the host.)
LTT: There was a recent thing from a major tech company, where developers were asked to say how many lines of code they wrote – and if it wasn’t enough, they were terminated. And there was someone here that was extremely upset about that approach to measuring productivity, because–
Torvalds: Oh yeah, no, you shouldn’t even be upset. At that point, that’s just incompetence. Anybody who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company.
LTT: You do know who you just said that about, right?
Torvalds: No.
LTT: Oh. Uh, he was a prominent figure in the, uh, improved efficiency of the US government recently.
Torvalds: Oh. Apparently I was spot on.