When, if ever, is “number of lines of code” a useful metric?

Question

Some people claim that code\'s worst enemy is its size, and I tend to agree. Yet every day you keep hearing things like

• I write blah lines of code in a day.

Answer 1

When determining level of effort (LOE). If you are putting together a proposal and you will have the roughly the SAME engineers working on the new project, then you might be able to determine how many engineers are needed for how long.