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docs: ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY methodology post + README link
Long-form response to the "LOC is a meaningless vanity metric" critique. Covers: - The three branches of the LOC critique and which are right - Why logical SLOC (NCLOC) beats raw LOC as the honest measurement - Full method: author-scoped git diff, regex-classified added lines, aggregated across 41 public + private garrytan/* repos - Both calculations: to-date (260x) and run-rate (879x) - Steelman of the critics (greenfield-vs-maintenance, survivorship bias, quality-adjusted productivity, time-to-first-user) - Reproduction instructions Linked from README hero via a blockquote directly below the number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**gstack is my answer.** I've been building products for twenty years, and right now I'm shipping more products than I ever have. In the last 60 days: 3 production services, 40+ shipped features, part-time, while running YC full-time. On logical code change — not raw LOC, which AI inflates — my 2026 run rate is **~880× my 2013 pace** (12,382 vs 14 logical lines/day). Year-to-date (through April 18), 2026 has already produced **260× the entire 2013 year**. Measured across 41 public + private `garrytan/*` repos including Bookface. AI wrote most of it. The point isn't who typed it, it's what shipped.
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> The LOC critics aren't wrong that raw line counts inflate with AI. They are wrong that normalized-for-inflation, I'm less productive. I'm more productive, by a lot. Full methodology, caveats, and reproduction script: **[On the LOC Controversy](docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md)**.
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**2026 — 1,237 contributions and counting:**
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