> Is your code somehow less important than that account’s spreadsheets? Shout-it-from-the-mountain-top "yes!" The code should just get you through a demo, or

> Is your code somehow less important than that account’s spreadsheets? Shout-it-from-the-mountain-top "yes!" The code should just get you through a demo, or securing the next round of financing. The accountant can't cut corners, because they and other people could go to jail. But the idea that prototyping in software is not a valid practice is laughably wrong. Where you do go wrong is if the people only know how to prototype and nothing else; they can't get rid of the prototypey bits and evolve it into solid production in which all traces of prototyping are gone. Multi-talented mega-begins which know numerous methodologies wouldn't be in this boat, right? > as if any bug is acceptable Windows still crashes in 2024, yet we can't get rid of it.