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IMO, Ben Thomson has great takes but this one is too over-indexed on the current SORA hype. Sure, a lot of people are downloading it and actively using it for creating videos/memes, but just like the Studio Ghibli phenomenon, interest will die down in a month or two.

In my opinion, there is still some relation between LoC and engineering output over a long period of time. Some of the greatest computer scientists and engineers have insane code outputs and I believe it does directly translate into impact in some ways. The issue is when Loc becomes a metric to measure performance. At that point, we have an instance of Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”.