That 37k loc/day must be JS in his blog. /i
Who are you to question what they build? You merely supply the prompts. /s
Lisp failed in the previous AI winter because it was so damn efficient, when the C-suite just likes big stupid numbers. Tell Garry Tan you have a tool that generates 2 million lines of code per day and he'll probably give you a billion dollars on the spot.
(I hope one day he sets out to vibecode Hacker News 2.0 and he'll have to convince our mods to switch over. Oh, that would be so funny.)
I guess people are going to hurt themselves badly before they realize this is still a requirement.
I dont get all this obsession over LOC. Having a crystal clear vision is the most important thing. If you've got that with conviction, shipping is trivial and not limited by people - you can go raise the money and hire the people to do it.
LOC is not the measure of productivity people think it is. Getting closer to actualising a vision is the true goal.
Im convinced there's two kinds of innovators 1) people who throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks 2) a much much smaller group of people who are very deliberate, methodical and think strategically before investing a dime in producing
Couldn't he offer a 1/4 day for a HN revamp?
I went all in on Claude for a week to see what would happen and ended up being unimpressed with results and saw it massively over complicating simple issues or creating unnecessary liability.
All these people are doing is pumping out tons of tech debt and liability that they don’t even have time to digest or understand and for what? Where is the upside or the profit, is it just the reward of seeing line go up in terms of “productivity”.
Total madness to me.
