# Engineering output rises sharply, but releases lag far behind

> Original title: We haven’t figured out how to scale from producing stuff to shipping stuff:

- Source: Santiago
- Published: 2026-11-02T22:42:26.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/hhyd1g1mv3qkpxo8gh06hdsy4
- Original: https://x.com/svpino/status/2117386884188168213

## Summary

Santiago says lines of code rose 2,450% and commits 240%, while releases rose only 30%. He calls the gap a failure to scale from producing code to shipping it.

## Post

We haven’t figured out how to scale from producing stuff to shipping stuff:

• 2,450% increase in lines of code
• 240% increase in commits
• but only 30% increase in releases

This video is really cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQW_Wvqhp04

[Video](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Famplify_video_thumb%2F2117386860251205632%2Fimg%2FKBhG7GNzCEHJPw6v.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793923200&sig=fd862e312f2fb1ea)