[tomlagier]

Obligatory: Not every company is in "that category" (hyperscale startups trying to churn out their MVP).

Some places where clean code really matters:

- The personal project where, if you can't figure out how you did something, you'll quickly get bored and quit.

- The open source project that needs to onboard hundreds or thousands of developers across language barriers in order to successfully solve problems.

- The medium-to-large startup or enterprise that needs to maintain velocity on a product line.

- The small startup that never quite hit hyper growth and needs to retain developers.

- ... many more

If you're trying to get rich quick, or quickly iterate through many different, dissimilar ideas, then writing sloppy code is fine. I'd argue that that's _not_ most codebases (though perhaps it is in the entrepreneur community).