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0 pointsTehchops5y ago0 comments

> a good dev is someone who produces the most business value

this this this.

More code might equal more bugs, but if it's a net gain in business value everything else is a secondary concern.

It doesn't mean you can just ship crap all the time. If customers start complaining/seeing errors/bad performance, business value decreases and there are going to be some $discussions.

If developers are rewarded for shoveling garbage into the pipeline all the time, there are deeper organizational issues afoot.

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ben77995y ago

This, there are company cultures where crap is shoveled and the investors buy it for a while.

The rock star thrives in this environment. The bugs don't catch up to them till later.

that_guy_iain5y ago

Isn't that just how start ups code? You ship features fast and loose and then deal with the aftermath once the company is maturer? Wouldn't this be a case of the best business value is shipping fast and loose and a slow and careful dev with 10x less bugs but is 10x slower is not what the company needs?

There seems to be a time and place for everything.

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