[oivey]

The time spans for doing it properly or shipping are maybe a bit muddled here, but if you can make a million dollars by shipping something now, you should probably ship it now. If the code is that bad (ie can end up costing way more to maintain than fix) then you should afterward immediately fix it. Side benefit is you’ll probably learn a lot about doing it right from the prod system.

[withinboredom]

Oh we tried to fix it and never succeeded. As soon as other teams found out about it, they started using it too. To be honest, had we waited to do it right, we potentially could have made even more money.

[__MatrixMan__]

I'm not sure what you mean by "should". If your job is to build things that aren't going to fail in ways that later end the company or hurt people, then finding ways to keep the:

> But we could make an additional million next quarter if we ship it now

...crowd in check is probably what you should be doing.