“He used to write 100,000 lines of code per year, being a very productive engineer and CTO.”

Peter Mattis · The Pragmatic Engineer · Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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Produced ~100,000 lines of code per year before AI adoption

100,000 lines per year

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