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Allan MacGregor
Personal blog · thepragmaticcto.com · on HN as allanmacgregorcareerprogrammingbusiness
Allan MacGregor writes The Pragmatic CTO, a personal blog at thepragmaticcto.com about career, programming and business. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link a newsletter post on the claim that lines of code are back, in the context of tech CEOs competing on how much of their code is written by AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hard-won lessons on scaling teams and technology from a CTO who's made the mistakes so you don't have to.
Most-linked posts?
- Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
What Hacker News says?
Another writer, back in February[1], noted "Every major tech CEO is now competing on what percentage of their code is written by AI" 1 https://www.thepragmaticcto.com/p/lines-of-code-are-back-and...
Comment linking /p/lines-of-code-are-back-and-its-worse
on “Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist”Submitted Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Software Factory: When No Human Writes or Reviews the Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussion