Code is an asset once proven to be so. I don't get the obsession with trying to condense this down to a single concept. Code is necessary, sometimes we write

Code is an asset once proven to be so. I don't get the obsession with trying to condense this down to a single concept. Code is necessary, sometimes we write good code that turns out to be an asset in both the short and long terms, sometimes we write mediocre code which is a short-term asset to our business goals but in the long term turns out to be debt. Sometimes we write bad code that will probably never justify itself as an asset because of the problems it a) causes and b) requires human intervention to support, patch or delete.