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I keep telling noobs that writing code is like 10% of what they do, and each line of code is a millstone round their neck. Terse, optimal performance (not optimized!) code meeting user requirements is the route to success. And so, doing less is how to go faster, but not what the video means
My man here thinking performance optimizations= fewer lines of code ๐๐๐
Let me rephrase then as you missed my point. Each line of code is a millstone around you, your team, and your companies neck. Maintainability usually corellates to LOC. Performance often aligns to LOC. Understanding your Big-O is far easier with less lines for when you do need to optimize. It's easy to write ten lines of code. The wisdom comes from knowing which of those lines you need and which you don't