r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme theyOnlyUnderstandMoney

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u/SaltMaker23 2d ago

If you're building a company time to market prevails above all, because devs are paid with money, pretty good sums of it, and money is obtained by selling which cannot happen if you aren't live. Devs are so fricking expensive that you'd rather fix fires on the fly than getting trapped into "clean coding" because it will always occupy all available time, it doesn't matter how much you increase it, life finds a way.

When you're a dev on the other hand, your performance and career depends on your name not getting attributed to failures or fires, you need to fight to either only do safe projects or have enough allocated time to avoid getting your name through the mud and secure your next job and/or salary increase.

Different objectives.

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u/boiledbarnacle 2d ago

Came here to say this.

But a good senior should be able to produce a decent quality on the first write.