It's on this list as "does well what is intended to do". In fact the article specifically discusses the fact that people, when surveyed, did not mention "it wor

It's on this list as "does well what is intended to do". In fact the article specifically discusses the fact that people, when surveyed, did not mention "it works" as a priority: Works: writing code should always have one purpose, deliver some value to somebody. Writing code that works, that it’s actually deployed somewhere making somebody happy is one of our top priorities. So we were kind of surprised every time a developer didn't include that item in the answer.