I can see companies could get away with it from new coders who don't understand the repercussions of releasing )buggy code or know much of long-term maintenance

I can see companies could get away with it from new coders who don't understand the repercussions of releasing )buggy code or know much of long-term maintenance. You know, this sounds familiar - the big outsourcing boon to less expensive development in other countries, sure they can write the code, but it's either shipped buggy or takes a lot of management and hand-holding of the outsourced development teams to get everything right.