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You write bloated code for job security? Shame on you.

Typically bloated code comes from legacy and years of organic growth. I'd imagine almost any 30k LOC project in any language that has been developed more than just a few years could be rewritten in a small fraction of the original size, now that you actually know what the end result must do, a luxury you don't have on the first go.

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>>You write bloated code for job security? Shame on you.

Try to give him the benefit of the doubt. There's no indication that that's what he meant. Instead, he probably meant that one possible reason people write bloated code -- or at the very least, do not attempt to refactor it after writing it -- is that it provides them with job security. Which is a fair point.

Adding feature X instead of refactoring the code base contributes to job security.

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