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My wife's company recently hired some contractors and they were touting their productivity with AI by saying how it allowed them (one person) to write 150k lines of code in 3 weeks. They said this without sarcasm. It was funny and scary at the same time that anyone might buy this as a good outcome. Classic lines-of-code metric rearing its ugly head again.


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