The goal isn't to produce perfect code, the goal is to evolve to perfect code. This gets missed by so many developers, once you change your mindset on this, yo

The goal isn't to produce perfect code, the goal is to evolve to perfect code. This gets missed by so many developers, once you change your mindset on this, you'll find you write better software. One of the questions to ask when writing code is "how long will it take to discover if this goes wrong?". Make it quick to find, let someone else in the future deal with the imperfections. I'm not saying don't try for perfect code, I'm saying not having written perfect code isn't a problem and it isn't a failing. code evolves to be stable, it is not born that way.