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Not even that, I'm not a civil engineer, but it looks pretty hard to add a ton of concrete without really helping a skyscraper, but I could add a few thousand lines of code without improving a system one bit, and even more lines to make the system slower, more complex, and still not add any functionality. LoC is about as good a measure of a system quality as weight is for an aircraft project.
You might acknowledge this analogy is popularly ascribed originally to Bill Gates. “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” ― Bill Gates
Very clever analogy!