But what does "getting left behind" mean? Not producing as many LOC or apps as someone else?

The old "Mythical Man Month" might apply here. Throwing bigger swarms of agents at things and making bigger projects may not lead to more progress and usefulness.

Often it's the small, insightful, well-crafted thing that goes much further than 100 decent projects. Git was a little tool written on a weekend and it went a lot further than giant projects written by giant teams.

Absolute cinema - measuring software engineering productivity by lines of code in 2026.

Sure, and how much did this cost you in tokens or subscriptions?

Reason I ask is sure, you did this but since few people are paying true cost, if prices rises by 10x, is it still worth it?

What have you actually produced tho?

Dont talk LoC. Talk about projects.

I never said I wouldn't miss it or that is is useless, just that in comparison to other services I pay for (or the company I work for pays for) I could easily live without it. I have to ask though, are these lines of code making you money? If so will you continue to need to produce this amount of code over the next 2 to 5 years to continue to profit from your work? I also would point out this argument could be applied to choosing some open source framework over another because of the number of lines of code it contains which doesn't make sense.