By the sheer number of responses here, this is a testament to how personal each coder's experience is and how much they value it unto itself. Coders care about

By the sheer number of responses here, this is a testament to how personal each coder's experience is and how much they value it unto itself. Coders care about the work they do and especially in the beginning find their choices to equate to who they are, tending to find unwanted changes or revisions to their code by others' hands as annoying or encroaching upon their precious domain, at least for me. To this day, I still get very annoyed when someone takes what I have done, completely reworks it or even throws it away, doing something else that IMO is more complex and difficult to work with. My values have shifted from doing the quick and custom style to moving more toward standards and TDD in a style that everyone can pickup easily and understand. This has made my work so much more productive in getting to the final production quality by a factor of not less than 2. In my youth, I spent 99% of my time fixing code as it broke. Now, I unit test and in many cases, end-to-end test with TDD frameworks providing myself with a much higher probability of success when pushing to production.