Bryan is too nice:
He is looking to reconnect with the engineer he talked with after The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged, which dev has a mandate to generate 30K LOC per day (!!)
Yes, that expectation is wild and weird.
(If you’re that dev, or in similar shoes. , DM him!)
Really loved this event with @GergelyOrosz! If you were there, can I ask your help on something small? As often happens at these kind of events, I ended up with a pack of folks afterwards talking about various things. After we had been discharged onto the street, an early-career engineer asked me for some professional advice: he is trying to navigate in an org with crushing LLM-use mandates -- and a daily LOC expectation. And (if I heard this correctly?!) he said that they had a mandate on the order of 30K lines per day (!!). He was asking my advice on how to improve this situation, and I think my advice wasn't too helpful (namely, that he should ally himself with like-minded engineers -- and with the finance folks who are presumably looking at a jaw-dropping AI bill). Upon further reflection, I wish I had asked a bunch more follow-up questions about his situation, because the 30K/day is so BONKERS (also, DID I hear him correctly?!). Is there anyone who was there who can help connect me to him? (I think I know his employer -- but only because someone said it after he left.) Alternatively, if you are suffering under similar LLM mandates, let me know -- I'd like to be in a position to offer better advice than "this too shall pass". DMs are open -- and thanks!View quoted post on X
