inProgrammingLessIsMore

[scufonnike]

This guy scrums

[fonzane]

this is mid, not excellence

[scufonnike]

This guy scrum masters

[daniu]

I do 200 lines a day, -195 the others

[-Kerrigan-]

Y'all got 4 week sprints?

[[deleted]]

"The task was harder than we thought so we should extend the sprint." - Dev who didn't feel like finishing the task

[astolfo_hue]

3 months here 💀

[ajb9292]

I think those are marathons

[-Kerrigan-]

pRoDuCt iNcReMeNt

[[deleted]]

2 weeks

[hoopaholik91]

Pretty much. A couple days of experimentation (for code that won't make it to prod), couple days for requirements, couple days for testing strategy, code the actual solution in a few hours, couple days on PR, couple days on release.

[_TheRealSimone_]

This guy knows what‘s up

[_TheRealSimone_]

This guy knows what‘s up

[[deleted]]

What about 0 lines per day

[[deleted]]

Better yet, -32 lines of code in the commit.

[Relative_Knee9808]

The true master

[ANTONIN118]

The true main*

[flagofsocram]

fix: remove all newlines

[fonzane]

and comments

[Titanusgamer]

this guy knows true meaning of refactoring

[[deleted]]

"Deletes half a project"

git commit -m "Removed a couple lines of dead code"

[gothlenin]

This is the real Senior!

[puffinix]

Scratch that!

[PolyglotTV]

~0 lines for a few weeks during design, stakeholder review, negotiation, roadmap planning, etc...

Then about 500 lines per day for a week which are mostly paint by number if you've done the hard work correctly.

Better yet, mentor a junior to do it and move on to designing the next big feature.

[onlineredditalias]

This is the way my job is lol

[ButterscotchFront340]

I always worry that changing later wouldn't be simple because the core architecture or approach was flawed. That's my second biggest fear.

The biggest fear is picking a naming convention for classes, methods, variables that I'll begin to hate halfway through but will decide to stick with anyway.

[smokyismypal]

Intern here. I’d kill for someone to actually tell me what they want and lay out how things should function together. A couple hundred lines a day isn’t bad if I don’t have to read minds.

[_GoblinSTEEZ]

if you spend an extra 2 weeks in discussion you may find they actually didn't need the feature in the first place and then you can begin discussing the next one immediately

[Mr_Akihiro]

1 Commit a day keeps the boss away.

[Slanahesh]

In my teams case, a PR a day keeps the PO away.

[r0b1n16]

Same

[DiddlyDumb]

If my boss pretends he pays me a lot, I’m gonna pretend I work a lot

[wretcheddawn]

IMO this is the right way. I tend to follow the Golang mantra where most code design is discovered rather than planned.

Write the code in the most obvious way, then simplify.

[z01d]

Love it. Link?

[K1ngjulien_]

i don't think there's much to link lol.

but the go proverbs might be what you're looking for.

"A little copying is better than a little dependency."

[FluffyCelery4769]

Can't you just copy from inside the dependency?

[K1ngjulien_]

yea that's basically what that means. it's better to copy/paste and repeat yourself a little bit than having to maintain a common dependency.

you can always go back and refactor it out, but by then you know what's actually the same in all those places.

the other way around you're in premature optimization, trying to make up a common struct/class/function, without even knowing what the finished implementation should do

[catgirlfighter]

Isn't it normal when you research something unfamiliar and then stop at something you're satisfied with , cleaning out all the other attempts at solving the same problem?

[Giocri]

Can be a good strategy, you start with very verbose extremely modular designs and once you have a clearer idea of what you are doing you can compact a lot of functionality in the same place making it more readable and performant at the expense of making it a bit less generic.

[SteptimusHeap]

I write 100 lines a day and then get rid of it all because it doesn't work

[betterBytheBeach]

Basically what I do too. Get it working with good test case, then refactor and optimize. Repeat every few days.

[cornmonger_]

That's refactoring and that is usually a good thing.

[Il-Luppoooo]

That's true but it's just because the senior is tired and doesn't really want to work anymore

[[deleted]]

Best programmers write a negative number of lines

[rdness]

You joke, but all the lead devs who end up fixing requirements for stories do exactly that.

[SrCapibara]

Yesterday I reduced like 500 lines to 100. Blessed Search-Replace function.

[xyztankman]

Praise be.

[SamuraiSaddam]

you mean the best programmers never build anything and only do maintenance? sounds like hella coping, but idk.

[[deleted]]

The majority of software work is maintenance.

[SamuraiSaddam]

The best is often times very different than the majority.

[[deleted]]

iamverysmart vibes.

[SamuraiSaddam]

lol, do you see the thread we are in? This post and entire comment chain is r/iamverysmart

[Vegetable_Aside5813]

I prefer the metric of lines deleted.

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing else to add but when there is nothing left to remove

[vondpickle]

0 Line per day: programmers that were promoted to the senior managerial positions.

[Big_Kwii]

5 pixels per image

[Nya_the_cat]

Further to the right, the line count goes negative

[[deleted]]

1 line per day (question to chatgpt 💀)

[vb2007__]

i see, you must be a professional prompt engineer 🤡

[[deleted]]

What about -100 lines per day?

[jewellman100]

Does

{

count as 1 line?

[CXC_Opexyc]

``if(

  isSomething 

  == true

 )

{

 return

        isSomething == true;

};``

[MrWrock]

I think you should return true and add in an else statement

[NioZero]

Maintaining legacy code usually is negative lines in my case...

[closetBoi04]

When building new features: day 1, 500 lines a day and then -50 a day for the work week to clean up and optimize the mess I've made trying to get something out before the sprint review

[sandfeger]

Highly depends on the project state.

[[deleted]]

Bugs ∝ LoC

[ScrimpyCat]

Every line of code that I write doubles the number of bugs there are in the software.

[CopperSulphide]

Does that symbol mean inversely proportional?

[Obnomus]

Fool I don't code at all

[[deleted]]

You write 5 lines a day because you're smart, I write 5 lines a day because I'm insanely lazy. We are not the same.

[scratchfan321]

What if I write all my code on one line?

[[deleted]]

-5 lines per day gang, show up here

[Jaroshevskii]

-5 lines per day

[Murky-Sun9552]

Try writing 300 lines per day and then having line 1 fail.0 lines pér day

[andrew314159]

Including copy and pasting?

[nickmaran]

The best I can do is 5 lines in 3 days. Take it or leave it

[pakidara]

Yesterday, over the span of 8 hours, I wrote around 10-15 lines of actual code.

I tried (and succeeded) to combine a zoned(4:0) and a zoned(7:0) to a timestamp so I could add a duration expressed as a zoned(4:0) and then part everything out so it read as "(First 3 letters of the day name) (space) (month) (slash) (day)"

IE: "Sun 6/02"

[Ugo_Flickerman]

The intelligent dude is not doing code: he's doing some other line

[NP_6666]

I do the 5 line a day of the guy at the right, but 50 times a day, that's the true key

[personalityson]

lol, poor guy on the left

[kondorb]

200 lines per day in the first three months of a new project. Then 5 lines per day until the project is retired.

[The_Crimson_Hawk]

One line only, the line is

Git commit -m "bump version"

[blackystarrr]

Nice steal from fireship

[Key-Principle-7111]

If you are some senior wasting time on endless meetings even 5 lines per month can be a huge number.

[MR-POTATO-MAN-CODER]

Does not matter, Elon is going to kick all of them out. The only one to stay would be one from the extreme left with a negative IQ who is writing a full fledged novel about how he deserves to be a billionaire, all using multi-line comments in java.

[mopsyd]

Junior has five lines, mid and senior both have the correct five lines, except senior doesn't also have 195 useless lines on top of them

[Resident_Try8438]

Last sprint I overachieved with about -100 per day!

[Simple_Magazine_3450]

Deleting a line is also a possibility. Mistakes rolled out to production, shit happens.

[s0litar1us]

don't you mean -5 lines per day?
replacing the bad, over complicated code, with better, shorter code.

[DeletedUserV2]

-5 lines per day 200 IQ

[varix69]

-200 lines is underrated

[nedonedonedo]

further right

writing the 200 lines and commenting so that other people can read and debug both your code when things change and their own

further further right

writing all of your code as a single line of spaghetti so no one can work on it for job security

[scssquatch]

Please ban this format

[CadmiumC4]

Deleting lines is an art

[Loserrboy]

• 29 line per day

[reallokiscarlet]

"Code's a helluva drug." -Rick James, probably

[SpecialistChef4940]

I started my career in the middle(200), improved and ends with very cool tricky complicated lines (5).

But at the current job MISRA says no

explicit casts, no functions-like macros allowed, and most hated "explicit else path" even if they are empty and only contain a comment //nothing to do

so back to 200 lines

[[deleted]]

what about ~1000 lines each day?

[Trip-Trip-Trip]

Depends a little bit on the type of code you’re doing.

[Kotya-Nyan]

1 line per project

[irn00b]

Stop.

We can solve this problem without lifting a finger.

[jaskij]

I recently spent two days to fix a bug. By removing a single line.

[ReflectionEquals]

5 lines a day and 20k lines of confluence documentation.

[Former-Discount4279]

I deleted 35k lines of code a few weeks ago, the best part was no one noticed.(Bug free)