It takes an entire business to publish a software product, not just engineers. It’s been a misdirection to blame engineering for productivity issues. If anything, the legal team contributes much more of the sloth, complexity and lethargy than the engineering team.

Legal has much more authority , and far less familiarity with the product, or even the customers. So they demand orthogonal, complicated and impractical requirements that are not even beneficial for risk mitigation. And they are slow at providing them – usually the bottleneck.

It’s not a simple LOC/day formula. If Southwest Airlines wanted to make major software improvements tomorrow, it certainly wouldn’t be the engineering team armed with Claude Code holding them back.

That's not every business though, but I do agree for businesses like airlines, banks etc...