I like to think of myself as belonging to the tidy category, I value craftmanship, beautiful elegant code, what Torvalds would call good taste. I respect coding

I like to think of myself as belonging to the tidy category, I value craftmanship, beautiful elegant code, what Torvalds would call good taste. I respect coding conventions. But sometimes, the manager comes in and says that the deadline was just tightened, and we need to release the thing earlier, so no more unit tests, some corner cutting ensues. What's more, as my backlog keeps increasing, I can't build each component to the same level of quality without falling behind. So I would say that it's not a black and white matter.