sadly it&#x27;s precisely what business are not gonna doing. measuring developers by LOC instead of business outcome allows to detach their worth from their productivity, albeit the metric is flawed in many ways it&#x27;s better to say &#x27;you produced X LOC, here&#x27;s a 100$ raise&#x27; than &#x27;your solution saved us 100M$, here&#x27;s a 100$ raise&#x27;