&gt;Maybe I&#x27;d had it wrong and people were always focused on &quot;lines of code&quot;?<p>No, the original studies talked about 10x <i>productivity</i>, not 10x lines of code. The more productive developers also produced fewer lines of code for similarly complex tasks, and it was easier to debug, to understand, and to modify. They also frequently would produce net-negative-lines-of-code on productive days.<p>Article is clickbait with a strawman premise, no question. I think it particularly attracts the clicks of 1x developers who like to think the 10x developers aren&#x27;t anything special. There are certainly many more 1x developers.<p>The top-voted comment as I write this frames someone who recommends WordPress as a solid engineer. Enough said.