AI Writes 50k Lines of Code a Day, Developers Mock Outdated Productivity Metrics
dbasch · x · 2026-08-11
Paul Graham recently tweeted about meeting a founder who sometimes writes 50,000 lines of code in a single day, sparking a fierce debate in the tech community about how fast AI-assisted programming should be.
In response, developer Dbauch mocked the metric, asking if anyone still cares about "lines of code per unit of time." They jokingly rated their own coding speed in absurd imperial units: "500 furlongs per fortnight." This highlights the industry's skepticism toward blindly chasing code volume in the AI era.
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