Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Business will always take precedence. I don't like it, never have, but if you have to decide between writting well documented code and code making money, always choose the latter.

Good companies will recognise that this should be a balance and provide their developers enough time to do both to a satisfactory degree. Sometimes the devs will have to push for this, and will meet resistance, but as with everything in engineering, nothing is black and white.

Write the best code you can, under the circumstances you can. It's a delicate balance.






If you are petitioning people to let you develop clean code the fight is already lost. It's just something you do as part of making the sausage.



Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: