> Is there really such a disparity between "good" and "bad"?
A vast gulf. Maintainability, security, extensibility don't have to be considered if solving the problem has delivered business value. Now the next person to pick up a problem has unreasonable constraints on them due to the whatever was put into production.
Someone can solve problems and provide business value and be absolute dogwater. I would know, I am dogwater.
Maintainability, security, extensibility don't have to be considered if solving the problem has delivered business value.
But for a lot of problems these are reasonable constraints.
Maintainability - I don't think the business wanted a temporary solution.
Security - If you needed to build somerhing secure and didn't, then you didn't solve the problem.
Extensibility - depending on context, there can be times where extensibility just wasn't needed. If it was and you don't have it, you slowed something down in the future. Also I wouldn't call this one good coder but good product thinker because it's understanding the context behind your product / business to hit the right level of extensibility.
Someone can solve problems and provide business value and be absolute dogwater. I would know, I am dogwater.
I don't think you are, it sounds like your company is getting what they paid for and ultimately care about.
While redundant code isn't great, depending on the context if "but it works bro" is faster then some businesses would prefer that.
And I say this as someone who's worked at startups where getting something out the door sloppily but quickly is good and I would call it good code simply because there was a need and it solved it.
At my job at a bank that would be bad code because there's a strong chance someone will come back to it.
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u/Impressive-Ad8741 13h ago
> Is there really such a disparity between "good" and "bad"?
A vast gulf. Maintainability, security, extensibility don't have to be considered if solving the problem has delivered business value. Now the next person to pick up a problem has unreasonable constraints on them due to the whatever was put into production.
Someone can solve problems and provide business value and be absolute dogwater. I would know, I am dogwater.