Not the person to whom you replied, but: mentorship. Code review. Talk about means, not just ends. I was fortunate to be a young developer with a desire to wri

Not the person to whom you replied, but: mentorship. Code review. Talk about means, not just ends. I was fortunate to be a young developer with a desire to write things that could last, so I skipped a few steps and found myself doing the mentoring perhaps sooner than most, but instilling the notion that this thing needs to continue to function, and rejecting work that isn't in service of that goal, is doable.