Yes
When I'm in full-blown work mode with a decent coding agent (usually Claude Code) I'm genuinely producing 1,000+ lines of (good, tested, reviewed) code a day
simonw on Hacker News
1,000+ lines of (good, tested, reviewed) code a day
In the thread “The State of AI Coding Report 2025”
Helped: Full-blown work mode with a decent coding agent.
… If a year has 200 working days that's still only about 40 lines of code a day. When I'm in full-blown work mode with a decent coding agent (usually Claude Code) I'm genuinely producing 1,000+ lines of (good, tested, reviewed) code a day. Maybe there is something to those absurd 10x multiplier claims after all! …