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by yakattak 75 days ago
> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is.

If you have buggy software, people don’t use it if there are alternatives. They don’t care about the code but hard to maintain, buggy code will eventually translate to users trying other products.

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Good code can also be buggy, bad code can be buggy.

The thing here was that if you have two boxes that take the same input and produce the same output at the same speed, do you care what the insides look like?

What if one is delivered in 4 days and the other in 30 days and costs more? Which one will you pick?