&gt; I could barely comprehend how little I wrote to get something to work.<p>There&#x27;s a subset of developers that really fall in love with this idea. I try and understand where they&#x27;re coming from but really have a hard time. The more involved with code reviews I&#x27;ve become through my career the more I recoil with fear when I hear this, recalling all the time I spent unbundling nested with nested within nested operations.<p>In the end I believe less LOC as an end goal is largely for the satisfaction of the single engineer writing the code. It feels good at he time.<p>Over time the super compact lines of code decay into hieroglyphics that cast a curse to the unlucky explorer that disturbs their tomb.