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Discussion on: Code quality is overrated

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Edmar S. Gonçalves • Edited

I think that the problem with "does it work?" and/or "does it provide great UX?" is that they don't answer whether the code is actually shippable.
In my experience, I've seen many cases where UX is great, but once it's time to roll out releases (be it new features or bug fixes) it's like a "brace for impact" type of situation. And as we all know, this makes things very stressful and makes devs unhappy. And when devs are unhappy, they leave. And obviously without devs there is no code 😿

This is pretty much why today I truly believe that if we don't ensure great DevX, UX will be at risk in the long run.

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Ross Creighton • Edited

I guess I would argue that shipable code goes hand in hand with good UX. Code that has a chance of breaking in production isn’t good UX.

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Edmar S. Gonçalves • Edited

Fair enough. I was for the most part trying to include the experience of shipping in the measure of quality, but I see what you're saying.