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As part of a quality control team, I personally went through over 1.2 million lines of working code (i.e. not including comments) over the span of about 8 months, M-F, 9am-5pm.

So, yeah - this number is bunk.

It really isn't. Most of the code is probably going to be uninteresting and you can do 10 lines a minute or more. Some of the code will be more relevant and might take a day for 10 lines. This would just be checking for accuracy though so you could probably just ignore a huge chunk of it.

I'd say more like ten lines a second, if you're skimming it to look for something. And of course, the work can be parallelized.

Is this satire?

"With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow^h^h^h^h^h^h buried in the critical open source dependancy underpinning the entire internet maintained by that one guy who's holding down a day job and doing it in his spare time." -- with apologies to Linus

(As always, XKCD beat me to this gag: https://xkcd.com/2347/ )

I'm not sure what you mean. What numbers would you call realistic?