It's true. For almost all of my career I've worked in the software equivalent of a lab building a diamond making robot. I did a stint at a consulting firm -- th

It's true. For almost all of my career I've worked in the software equivalent of a lab building a diamond making robot. I did a stint at a consulting firm -- that was more like coal mining than manufacturing gemstones. By this I mean never ending surface area, and very little incentive to ever go back and refactor anything.