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Ross Creighton

I hear what you're saying, but there is no culture, no company, no next developer if you don't have users. I'm just saying you have to find a balance. Requirements are fluid.

I care immensely about doing things the right way, to the point that it is counter productive. I wrote this post because I realized that my level of focus on quality wasn't appropriate for the constraints I was facing in the real world.

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Daniel

Yeah. And, actually, "overdoing" software quality can become a form of procrastination as well.

But this is one extreme of the spectrum. The problem is that a lot of developers are on the other extreme. I feel that sometimes people don't understand that, for a startup, the risk of failing from technical bankruptcy is as real as the risk of failing from financial bankruptcy.

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Ross Creighton

That makes a lot of sense. Maybe calling code quality "overrated" is a little dangerous.