[gilday]

Software is typically written to serve some business need, and when crappy software serves that need it's incredibly difficult to convince the organization to invest more in quality. However, being asked to crank out half-baked features, poorly tested code, and poorly designed systems takes a toll on programmers who want to be proud of their work.

So what is a programmer to do? I feel like buyers and sellers of software are each cool with the status quo, so who has incentive to improve?