My quantity beats your quality.

Lines of Code Are Back (And It's Worse Than Before).

Twenty-five percent. Thirty percent. Fifty percent. Ninety percent. The numbers only go up, and they're presented as achievements—on earnings calls, in press releases, at conferences. Nobody is reporting "percentage of bugs introduced by AI-generated code" or "percentage of AI code that survived review unchanged." Nobody is mentioning how much of that generated code was thrown away, reworked, or never deployed. The headline metric is volume. LOC by another name.