I love the implication that Jon doesn't know that all billion lines of code don't compile to a single executable. What is wrong with everyone? What linker do you think Jon believes they are using?? They'd launch LLD and six years later they'd have their binary.
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Yes, there are things that depend on each other, but there are also lots of things that don't depend on each other. Or depend on each other no more than they would if they were developed at different companies. If you have 1000 companies with 1MLOC each, and you mege them into...
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... 1 company with 1B LOC, it doesn't instantly make the code more complex. It just means you have a bigger company with a 1000 different products.
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But more importantly, an engineer working on Assistant is not working on GMail. One working on Android isn't working on DeepMind. IT MATTERS HOW MUCH WORK THERE IS TO. Programming is a finite resource. The more LOC you have, the less expertise you have across it.
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