[thorn]

I don’t think many people are interested in producing 100% correct code. I saw this at big companies and small startups. It is all the same: ship feature asap before competitors. Writing correct code is almost always punished indirectly in the way they only praise the feature delivering heroes that got promoted. Nobody got promoted for preventing bugs.

Maybe in some other circles it is not like that, but I am sure that 90% of industry measures output in the amount of value produced and correct code is not the value you can show to the stockholders.

It is sad state of affairs dictated by profit seeking way of life (capitalism).

[Freak_NL]

Not value produced, but easily quantifiable value produced, I would say. There are lots of cases where some perfectly tweaked internal tool saves hours of work every week, or some mostly invisible (but crucial) project, application, or module just somehow always works. But the user never twigs they exist, and the customer doesn't care. The value is there (in saved hours, frustration, and stability), but it won't count.

[thorn]

Yes, perceived value, I wanted to write. Your correction is spot on.