"You'd need access to my private repos" → "Bookface and Posthaven are
private, but gstack and gbrain are open-sourced with tens of thousands
of GitHub stars and tens of thousands of confirmed regular users, among
the most-used OSS projects in the world that didn't exist three months
ago."
Keeps the `gh repo list` command at the end for the actual
reproducibility instruction.
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gstack: "1,000+ distinct project installations" → "tens of thousands of
daily active users" (telemetry-reported, community tier, opt-in).
gbrain: "small set of beta testers" → "hundreds of beta testers running
it live."
Both are the accurate current numbers. The concession paragraph below
(about shipped != adopted at scale for the long-tail repos) still reads
correctly since it's about the corpus as a whole, not gstack/gbrain
specifically.
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Reframes the thesis as "engineers can fly now" (amplification, not
replacement) and fortifies the soft spots critics will attack.
Added:
- Flight-thesis opener: pilot vs walker, leverage not replacement.
- Second deflation layer for AI verbosity (on top of NCLOC). Headline
moves from 810x to 408x after generous 2x AI-boilerplate cut, with
explicit sensitivity analysis showing the number is still large under
pessimistic priors (5x → 162x, 10x → 81x, 100x impossible).
- Weekly distribution check (kills "you had one burst week" attack).
- Revert rate (2.0%) and post-merge fix rate (6.3%) with OSS
comparables (K8s/Rails/Django band). Addresses "where are your error
rates" directly.
- Named production adoption signals (gstack 1000+ installs, gbrain beta,
resend_robot paying API) with explicit concession that "shipped != used
at scale" for most of the corpus.
- Harder steelman: 5 specific concessions with quantified pivot points
(e.g., "if 2013 baseline was 3.5x higher, 810x → 228x, still high").
Removed factual error: Posterous acquisition paragraph (Garry had already
left Posterous by 2011, so the "Twitter bought our private repos" excuse
for the 2013 corpus gap doesn't apply).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
tax-app is a demo app I built for an upcoming YC channel video,
not an "import-dominated history" as the previous commit claimed.
Excluded because it's not production shipping work, not because
of an import commit.
Updated rationale in scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts's
EXCLUDED_REPOS constant, in docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md's
method section + conclusion, and in the README hero wording
("one demo repo" vs the earlier "repos dominated by imported code").
Numbers unchanged — the exclusion itself is the same, just the
reason.
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tax-app's history is one commit of 104K logical lines — an initial
import of a codebase, not authored work. Removing it to keep the
comparison honest.
Changes:
- scripts/garry-output-comparison.ts: added EXCLUDED_REPOS constant
with tax-app + a one-line rationale. The script now skips excluded
repos with a stderr note and deletes any stale output JSON so
aggregation loops don't pick up pre-exclusion numbers.
- README hero: updated to 810× run rate + 240× YTD (were 880×/260×).
Wording updated to "40 public + private repos ... after excluding
repos dominated by imported code."
- docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md: updated all numbers, added an
"Exclusions" paragraph explaining tax-app, removed tax-app from
the "shipped not WIP" example list.
New numbers (2026 through day 108, without tax-app):
- To-date: 240× logical SLOC (1,233,062 vs 5,143)
- Run rate: 810× per-day pace (11,417 vs 14 logical/day)
- Annualized: ~4.2M logical lines projected
Future re-runs automatically skip tax-app. Add more exclusions to
EXCLUDED_REPOS at the top of the script with a one-line rationale.
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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.
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