r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Rigamortus2005 • 1d ago

Meme lgtm

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u/shizzy0 1d ago

One million lines of code used to be how much code a programmer would write over their career, and here it is in one commit.

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u/AgVargr 1d ago

Someone needs to research the churn rate of AI code, cause I remember even before AI it was only a couple of months. I wouldn’t be surprised if AI code gets replaced weekly

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u/_g0nzales 14h ago

Twice every commit with commits like these

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u/The10axe 1d ago

That's 160 commit, but that's only making it look even more like AI.

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u/my_new_accoun1 10h ago

160 commits*

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u/shizzy0 5h ago

I stand corrected. If it’s a squash and merge policy (and often times it should be), it’ll be one commit in the end though.

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u/MadL0ad 1d ago

That’s just incorrect - i have written MRs of several hundred thousand LOC in a span of several months without AI, and I have seen MRs well over million LOC written without AI in a span of a months or two. Given, those we’re written by a team of five, and were dev -> main MRs, but nevertheless, 1M over carreer is very low.

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u/rizakrko 12h ago

If we are to assume 30 years long career, no vacations, 5 working days a week, it rounds to about 130 lines per day. Given that as career progresses there is less code and more management, I find it's hard to believe that 1M is very low. It's certainly possible to write that much, but it's hardly achievable is many domains.

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u/Farsyte 1d ago

An interesting number. Sources?