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Re:Goodbye, Clean Code by _pmf_ on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:05PM (#22027378)
> This sounds like the outcome of bad culture.

For 90% of shops outside the cornucopia of SV with unlimited budgets and internal customers only, the client drives decision mercilessly and ruthlessly.

Re:Goodbye, Clean Code by dx034 on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:20AM (#22032749)
And for a good reason. The product doesn't exist because they're fun to develop. They exist because they solve a problem customers have. So ultimately, decisions should always be based on what customers (long-term) benefit most from.