@ZoeSchiffer As well, this discourages writing documentation leading to an increase in tech debt (which according to reports was already huge at Twitter). If you want to use lines of code as a metric for productivity, just hire code monkeys instead of actual software engineers.
@ZoeSchiffer A huge amount of time is spent planning and designing before writing any code at all, and is often said that actually writing code makes up a small amount of time working. Furthermore, this discourages writing elegant and idiomatic code in favour of ugly procedural code.