{"id":21075,"date":"2022-11-21T09:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=21075"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:21:48","slug":"why-lines-of-code-is-a-bad-metric-for-a-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/11\/why-lines-of-code-is-a-bad-metric-for-a-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why lines of code is a bad metric for a programmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00a0 is a long explanation over at <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/developer-purpose\/elon-musk-just-force-ranked-twitter-engineers-fired-the-bottom-507ab35b659a\">medium<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>committing code is a small part of what software engineers do. There are many ways in which you can contribute technically without writing much code.\u00a0In fact, the best senior engineers I know are great at prioritization, delegation, and simplifying. Their pull requests are tiny because they\u2019ve made the code modular and straightforward. &#8230; Writing negative code is a point of pride! If you refactored a complex piece of logic, picked a good library to solve a problem, or eliminated unnecessary features, then you\u2019ll have a negative commit history. .. \u00a0fine-tune configs, research arcane issues, and dive deep into underlying architecture. Working on these jobs can mean days of research just to make a few-line change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same applies to amount of funding received by a scientist (although frequently used for calculation of salariy). If I can achieve the same impact at a fraction of the costs, isn&#8217;t that much better than producing more costs?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00a0 is a long explanation over at medium committing code is a small part of what software engineers do. There are many ways in which you can contribute technically without writing much code.\u00a0In fact, the best senior engineers I know are great at prioritization, delegation, and simplifying. Their pull requests are tiny because they\u2019ve made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/11\/why-lines-of-code-is-a-bad-metric-for-a-programmer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why lines of code is a bad metric for a programmer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3976,1042],"class_list":["post-21075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-musk","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21077,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075\/revisions\/21077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}