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>I've been consistently amazed at how far companies can get on shoddy code. I think this was one of the most disheartening realizations of my career. I spent a

• jbluepolarbear 6y ago
  This is where I shine in start up environments. I can throw together “working” implementations quickly while also having the forward thought to allow the system to be incrementally replaced or improved overtime. My starting implementations can look rough and sloppy, but I use consistent patterns and designs that guide building out more complex systems as we go. I have also done the opposite of taking an existing monolithic spaghetti code system and start isolating functionality without changing behavior. This then allows to improve and replace sub systems as needed.
• adam_arthur 6y ago
  I think it's more of a correlation not causation thing :) All else equal, the company with the better codebase will be more competitive/make more money. But at the same time it's just true that for most companies code quality and technical excellence are not core qualities of their culture. A lot of companies say that it is, but they don't live it... Or the original founder/technical team don't really have the chops to enforce that quality and make it a core element of the business. Of course that doesn't meant they're not smart. I've known a huge number of highly intelligent people that don't care about code quality, or the future human reader. Needs to become embedded in culture of the org for it to trickle down and become lived in practice.