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by Cthulhu_ 5 days ago
I think "quality" (quoted to keep the term vague) is important for long-term maintainability of software at scale (>1 developer). However, working / shipped / earning code is always better than quality code that isn't used in production.

ffmpeg, facebook, claude, twitter etc might not have existed if the authors focused on quality over shipping.