still laughing about the gitlab CEO bragging about trillions of lines of code. that only makes sense if you think code works like property
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@hipsterelectron Trillion lines of liability there.
@merospit take one down, pass it around, effectively still trillion liabilities on the wall
@hipsterelectron a birdie, eh? well, my golf score is in the trillions!!
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another billionaire-type "who holds ALL the cards" 🤔
@hipsterelectron I kinda miss when "Every line of code you write is a liability.” was a thing people actually still recognized.
Seems we went from that to "Lines of code are the metric we're optimizing for" within the span of like 3 months and now it's just treated like a normal thing.
@hipsterelectron Imagine if this were how other engineering jobs worked.
Optimizing bridges, buildings, trains, to have the maximum possible points of failure.
Every mistake gets a quick spot-weld or some duct tape on it, and is then built on top of, until it eventually explodes.
