When I read that Anthropic source repository post with the "every bottleneck we remove immediately leads to a further increase in the amount of code we produce" quote, I just think back to Ken Thompson's famous quote:
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."
"More code" is not a metric of success.
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