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The situation depends also on the team. I've been on teams with sloppy programmers and efficient programmers. What I've learned personally is that efficient programmers who plan things out and focus on best practice tend to keep their code very DRY and understandable for others to catch onto. The sloppy programmers end up having to race to the deadline in order to refactor and sometimes redo their code because the end result was close but not correct enough for passing to a client. While I like the idea of saying "f-it" let me program I love thinking about efficient problem solving, it actually makes me continue to think and IMHO makes me a better programmer.