>If shipping code is a commodity then why is everyone's immediate priority seemingly to ship 10x more code.

I wonder how much of current engineering practices can be traced to what's pushed to company leaders on LinkedIn.

Every company is shitting bricks pushing for faster development and speed, gotta go fast to nowhere in particular, and I'm convinced it's tied to constant bombardment of the idea that they're doing to be left out or obsolete if they don't get in the ship NOW.