Very poetic. I think my satisfaction with the code I write depends largely on the environment it was produced in. For code I write for myself, I'm generally fai

Very poetic. I think my satisfaction with the code I write depends largely on the environment it was produced in. For code I write for myself, I'm generally fairly pleased at the time I write it. Of course this changes years later when I look back and wonder what possessed me to construct such a monstrosity. On the other hand, I find code written for pay is often uglier than I would like at the outset due to time constraints. But if it gets the job done and has high likelihood of being scrapped completely (as can often be the case when experimenting in a startup) then that's a tradeoff I'm willing to live with.