A lot of the Mythical Man-Month is timeless, but for a stat like that, it really is worth bearing in mind the book was written half a century ago about developers working on 1970s mainframes.
A lot of the Mythical Man-Month is timeless, but for a stat like that, it really is worth bearing in mind the book was written half a century ago about developers working on 1970s mainframes.
Yeah, I think that metric has grown to about 20 lines per day using 2010s-era languages and methods. So maybe we could think of LLM usage as an attempt to bring it back down to 10 per day.