this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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Is there really a market for mass production of low quality software?
Maybe it's just never been needed in any of the market segments I work, but it always seems like it's better to spend 40 hours today to refactor or clean up code then to spend 10000 hours bug hunting spaghetti code. Like sure your perl script worked but for the love of all let's actually make a project with a maintainer and a code base you can reasonably attach an SLA to plz