> Lines of code per developer grew from 4,450 to 7,839 as AI coding tools act as a force multiplier.
Is that a per-year number?
If a year has 200 working days that's still only about 40 lines of code a day.
When I'm in full-blown work mode with a decent coding agent (usually Claude Code) I'm genuinely producing 1,000+ lines of (good, tested, reviewed) code a day.
Maybe there is something to those absurd 10x multiplier claims after all!
(I still think there's plenty of work done by software engineers that isn't crunching out code, much of which isn't accelerated by AI assistance nearly as much. 40 lines of code per day felt about right for me a few years ago.)
Is that a per-year number?
If a year has 200 working days that's still only about 40 lines of code a day.
When I'm in full-blown work mode with a decent coding agent (usually Claude Code) I'm genuinely producing 1,000+ lines of (good, tested, reviewed) code a day.
Maybe there is something to those absurd 10x multiplier claims after all!
(I still think there's plenty of work done by software engineers that isn't crunching out code, much of which isn't accelerated by AI assistance nearly as much. 40 lines of code per day felt about right for me a few years ago.)