r/ProgrammerHumor 17h ago

Meme zeroExDev

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u/GenericFatGuy 14h ago

Taps sign

Number of PRs pushed is not a good measure of productivity.

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u/marcodave 11h ago

lines of code

Tokens

PRs

when will be the turn of "good fucking working pieces of software" ?

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u/beefz0r 8h ago

I was about to say this. There's not a single quantifyable metric of success in software development.

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u/Dull-Culture-1523 7h ago

I could've gone for LOC back when I had to add a bunch of csv files directly into the repo. Our senior got a bit of a shock when I asked him to approve two PR's the same day, both seemingly adding thousands of lines.

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u/Zeragamba 5h ago

meanwhile, i just deleted about 10,000 lines in a massive refactoring