52 Million Lines of Code in One Year

I just couldn’t believe it.

It started on a Thursday afternoon.

I wanted to scold my kid brother for spending too much time on his phone playing games and watching TikTok, and I figured I should also check how much time I spend on my laptop, about 14 hours a day since the summer began.

That number still blows my mind. If you subtract my six to seven hours of sleep, I’m only off my devices for roughly four hours a day: not great.

Coincidentally, it was July 13, the anniversary of my first fully coded project. Curious about what I’d accomplished in a year, I asked GPT for the best way to count lines in a codebase.

That led me to Cloc. When I ran it, the total lines came out to 52,440,053.

Over 50 million lines of code in one year. INSANE. I never thought I’d reach anything like that.

I’m not sure how 52 million stacks up against other devs, but for me it’s incredible. Some of those projects now serve more than 50,000 people in my region, and I’m grateful.

Everything compounds, from my first portfolio website to PIOS, the AI college-guidance counselor. I feel blessed to create something strangers can use and find helpful.

Seeing that number boosted my morale and reminded me how much is possible, especially in the age of AI. I didn’t manually type 95 percent of those lines, which shows how rapidly software engineering is evolving.

In the end, I’m just a humble student trying to make a difference wherever I can, while having fun along the way.

Here’s to doing even more by next year!