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Code is a cost. It seems everyone's forgotten.

Saying "I generated 250k lines" is like saying "I used 2500 gallons of gas". Cool, nice expense, but where did you get? Because it it's three miles, you're just burning money.

250k lines is roughly SQLite or Redis in project size. Do you have SQLite-maintaining money? Did you get as far as Redis did in outcomes?

Openclaw was mostly build by AI. It had 400K lines of code.
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