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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2024, @11:15PM
It can depend on the code. The most code I've ever cranked out in a day was almost 5000. That code model was impeccable, I was on my game, and newly refreshed after a vacation. It was an absolute breeze to write the code, instantiate the test templates, crosscheck against the specification, and then verify. That is the only reason I was able to crank it out in a day and it was a beautifully great day I'll probably never match. Another great day was when I moved a server from Go to Erlang while cutting server requirements by 80%. On the other side of that, I've had multiple days were I've written maybe a dozen lines of code that perfectly fit the specification that verified first try. To the reverse that, I have had days where I've torn out my hair trying to get simple five line functions to do what I want them to do in an acceptable manner and days where I've done hundreds of lines but those lines were complete shit that I wasn't happy with and ended up jettisoning eventually.
More than the code lines, it really more settles on your psychological flow and how useful the final product is. That's really what the three of us had on our special days. But it is also easy to mistake the SLOCs as the reason rather than the result.