The point isn't to compare those who wrote 10K vs 11K lines of code, it is to compare both of them with someone who wrote no code in the last 6 months.

Top seniors at my job almost write no more code. They mentor, teach, design, troubleshoot etc. By Musk metric, they should be fired even if they basically run company systems.

By Musk metric, people who write lots of code should be in those positions.

Fire that person and their manager for not doing anything about it. Either way its still a terrible metric. I wrote shit loads of code and was still beat out by the worst member of our team because they were given oddball tasks like copy all of this code into a new area, or even worse when they accidentally force merged a different repo into another, good grief.

Typically, someone who wrote no code in 6 months was doing different position for those 6 months. Analysis, infrastructure or whatever, usually without formally changing position. That is significantly more common then imaginary coder who produces no code.

Elon: So what your saying is, junior engineers are cheaper and write more LOCs, while senior engineers are expensive and not productive. Brilliant!

Fire everyone under 10000 lines and give this fellow Autoformatbot a $10 Starbucks gift card. He’s employee of the month!

I am very smart. This will go great.