And the same day Google Gemini Pro gets almost complete open long context multimodal access and OpenAI upgrade to GPT4-Turbo it was a big day in general for news drops that's for sure!
In my opinion, there is still some relation between LoC and engineering output over a long period of time. Some of the greatest computer scientists and engineers have insane code outputs and I believe it does directly translate into impact in some ways. The issue is when Loc becomes a metric to measure performance. At that point, we have an instance of Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”.
Hopefully, this leads to a future where ios is a similar platform to Mac OS or Windows. Both are general computing operating systems where you have access to an app store as well as the ability to download arbitrary software from the web.
