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		greenchair 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You're not a senior engineer until you've worked o... exactly..which is also why lines of code written is one of if not the worst possible metric of productivity. easy to game too.

escapecharacter 9 months ago [–]

I marked my transition to senior engineer when my net lines of code flipped to negative.

Not that I game that obviously, it just occurred naturally for a ~4 month period

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