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You assume AI LOC == dev LOC. It wouldn't take you 20K LOC.
Ok, I'll take the bait.

apt-cacher-ng, the hand-written C++ version, is 16K LOC for the core. apt-cacher-ultra does a lot more. Seems like a pretty reasonable LOC count to me.

What are you basing your assertion above on?