No. I DO believe lines of code was used as metric. It's a fast way to protect the top code contributors. I just don't think it's the only thing taken into consideration like people are implying...

There are countless teams and examples for it being a horrible metric to solely fire on.

I just think it's not right to jump to conclusions like Dictator Elon fires engineers with low LOC.

All we have to go off of is they had review meetings where they had to show off the code they contributed and Elon "suggested to query for lines committed."

Is believing in both of those things is somehow a contradiction? "I haven't seen a good proof that he fired based on LOCs and even if he did that would not be stupid anyway"?

Just because you take something into consideration does not mean it becomes a criteria. But I think we can all agree that it would be a mistake in a mass layoff to accidentally fire the top 10 contributors to a given project if the 11th contributor only ever made 3 contributions all just updating comments right?

Well that sort of logic requires you review the logs. It doesn’t have to mean you set up some arbitrary “anyone under ckloc per week is fired”