[giraffe333]

Adding on to the thoughts about everyone writing terrible code sometimes, there is also “terrible code makes lots of money”.

Source: over 20 years doing software dev at various companies with terrible code that makes millions. Happily my current job has really great code (imho).

[ecshafer]

How often do we see a collapsed and failed start up where people will say "Wow there was some good tech at that company". Good code and cool code exist on an independent axis as good business plans.