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I've tried to treat my unimportant app developer career as being a stepping stone to something more important. Even if it's OK to release crap today, where wil

by mrkeen 7y ago

I've tried to treat my unimportant app developer career as being a stepping stone to something more important. Even if it's OK to release crap today, where will I be in 10 years time if that's what I have been practicing? I'd rather try to release bug-free software now, even if it causes friction where I work.

throwaway894345 7y ago
It's important to note that there is a difference between "making crap" and "spending inordinate effort to preclude bugs from my software". The idea is that you write the best code you can as quickly as you reasonably can and provide the degree of quality that suits your economic situation. You will make mistakes, learn from them, and then the next iteration will be fast and incrementally better. In theory if not in practice, this will make you a better developer (better code and fewer bugs) more quickly than if you were to spend lots of time perfecting each project, never mind the value that is generated from the additional features that you've shipped (which you otherwise wouldn't have shipped if you were spending time scrutinizing your code for bugs).