If your edge manager doesn’t understand the value in clean code then you’re screwed. However that doesn’t mean it will be invested in. Clean Vs messy are binar

If your edge manager doesn’t understand the value in clean code then you’re screwed. However that doesn’t mean it will be invested in. Clean Vs messy are binary descriptors that devs love to throw around. A lot of time messy code is not worth fixing. Managers have to make judgement calls. But what they should always let you do is marginally improve the code each time you’re in it, and especially let you invest in test coverage.