> the company that writes perfect code? You are touching on an important point, which I did not state: that there are no companies with zero pebbles on the sca

> the company that writes perfect code? You are touching on an important point, which I did not state: that there are no companies with zero pebbles on the scale. The goal is not perfection. The goal is to avoid a pile of pebbles large enough that engineers feel hopeless / "why do I bother" / "this place is a joke anyway". Good people don't stick around long for that. But the main point was that thinking that a technical blemish has "zero cost" is a trap. The cost is not zero. The cost is having one more pebble on the scale.