Tiny Codebase, Huge Development Cost

Language Files Lines Blanks Comments Code Complexity HTML 8 1082 114 0 968 0 Shell 4 111 18 22 71 14 JSON 1 21 0 0 21 0 Markdown 1 45 8 0 37 0 Rust 1 626 86 28 512 14 TOML 1 25 3 3 19 0 gitignore 1 2 0 0 2 0 Total 17 1912 229 53 1630 28 Estimated Cost to Develop (organic) $45,122 Estimated Schedule Effort (organic) 4.24 months Estimated People Required (organic) 0.95 Processed 67097 bytes, 0.067 megabytes (SI)

A terminal-style codebase report lists only 17 files and 1,912 lines of code, yet estimates that recreating it would cost $45,122 and take 4.24 months with nearly one person. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between a small project and its surprisingly large development estimate, making it useful as a reaction to overengineering, inflated project costs, or the hidden effort behind software. EN: A terminal-style codebase report lists only 17 files and 1,912 lines of code, yet estimates that recreating it would cost $45,122 and take 4.24 months with nearly one person. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between a small project and its surprisingly large development estimate, making it useful as a reaction to overengineering, inflated project costs, or the hidden effort behind software.

• @ithueti / 10985 2023-11-23