Did Elon Musk Really Fire People Using Lines Of Code As His Metric?

It looks like he at least pitched the idea, but the source is Pragmatic Engineer talking about a leak

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“Lines of code written in the past year” was his metric…

I am here to critique his approach to reducing overhead. Recent reports have Twitter at a 50% layoff. Half of Twitter employees are getting fired.
Source

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1588906808395333633

Elon Musk is the new Twitter chief. On day one, Musk asked Twitter engineers to print out their code for review. As per reports, Musk has asked the engineers to show the recent software code they wrote. The engineers were also asked to print their code. Musk fired Twitter executives Parag Agrawal, legal head Vijaya Gadde and CFO Nel Segal were terminated as soon as Musk took over. The Tesla CEO wants to make Twitter a “free” space and wants to work humanity.
Source, “Day 1: Elon Musk asked Twitter employees to print out their code for review”

https://github.com/gem5/website/graphs/contributors

Steven: Nope, it’s actually 8343–8346. You contributed negative three lines of code, so you’re still fired
Me: No, it’s absolute value. So I actually contributed 16,000 lines of code

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A software engineer who writes about software engineering. Shocking, I know.

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Evan SooHoo

A software engineer who writes about software engineering. Shocking, I know.