[leftbit]

Quite so. As the article stated there are quite a lot of things wildcards abhor which the company needs done somehow anyway. Devs with another mentality.

But that wasn't my point in my previous comment. I was thinking more along the lines of "value for the customer" and the 80:20-rule.

I'm quite aware there's a strong correlation between code quality and the quality perceived by the customer, but if the customer didn't demand a certain percentage of code coverage or that every typo fix in a comment has to be done on a developer branch and code reviewed I see no value in these activities. So I feel more productive if I'm able to omit those steps.

Others probably think they're more productive than me because I don't get anything "really finished" by their standards.