[patrick451]

Knowing what quality of code to ship when is part of the craft. This skill applies to a lot of professions. No carpenter puts the same detail into framing that they do into stain grade trim. Nor will they go furniture grade fasternerless install in a cheap tract home.

This isn't a revolutionary idea, but for some reason, software devs suffer from an excess of black and white thinking. Things must always be done a particular way. It's such a bad tick, we have created a host of tools that try to enforce as much rigid uniformity as we can manager to automate.