I have seen more shitty code than high quality code in my life. It’s hard for me to empathize with anyone who thinks startup code is going to generally meet some decent quality bar.
People like Brian acton and Jan Korum exist, but they are the exception. If you always expect people to write good code, you will be fucking disappointed.
The only solution that scales is having adequate speed bumps and guard rails that prevent people from pushing code till after it’s been properly tested. And just because it’s in a git log doesn’t mean it gets pushed to production.
This article reminds me that journalists only make money when they squeeze your amygdala. Reading content from ars is the equivalent of an intellectual jump scare. Add 127.0.0.1 arstechnica.com to your resolv.conf file for mental health. Fuck off ars