# "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI" > Source: > Published: 2026-06-18 09:45:34+00:00 paul. buddy. this is the opposite of a success story. you met a guy who tricked himself into thinking productivity means flooding a repo with 10,000 lines of code a day and your takeaway was "wow, what a wizard." no. what you saw was a man deep in the throes of AI assisted mania, mainlining synthetic velocity and calling it engineering. this is not craftsmanship. this is cope with autocomplete. and the worst part is you fell for it. what matters isn't how much code you generate. it's whether that code should exist at all. whether it's legible. whether it's real. lines of code is not a meaningful metric in software, never has been. AI can generate garbage that compiles at industrial scale. that doesn't mean we should applaud people who shovel it the fastest. you're watching a guy pour concrete onto a foundation made of jello and calling it a skyscraper because it’s tall and he built it fast. there is no way this person is producing 10k lines of code a day without bugs. this is slop paul and you know it.