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by pjmlp 42 days ago
Easy, it shows what is achievable if there is a high bar for quality in every single line of code that gets commited, reviewed and merged, regardless of the programming language.

However in the days of race to bottom, offshoring for penies, and now LLM powered code generation, this is a quality most companies won't care unless there is liability in place.
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bilekas 42 days ago
> Easy, it shows what is achievable if there is a high bar for quality in every single line of code that gets commited

This is becoming a more and more overlooked/underrated feature. I genuinely believe it would be impossible in any company that depends on shareholder value. I am yet to convince any company I've worked in without bloody hands that we need to solve old tech debt and refactor certain things etc.

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pjmlp 42 days ago
Which is liability is relevant, that is the only language shareholders understand.
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bilekas 42 days ago
If you can get that message across the right way, you're a better company man than me. There's always someone more important than me to say 'but this needs to be delivered first'.
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pjmlp 42 days ago
Sure, my point was more in general from government level.
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