[adamauckland]

Because as soon as you tilt from producing features to fixing bugs, you are losing traction and your competitors will win and now you are bankrupt.

I've seen entire businesses collapse because of this mentality.

[roguas]

Yes, this is also why senior engs get payed so well. Actually if you are junior dev you basically cost money, imo. However a lot of companies hire those in hopes they will make their career and stay longer - especially startups do that, as they can slide on the company culture hook way more. Also they need them as senior engs require equivalents of "secretary" to handle less import things.

I don't mean to sound mean, senior devs are also secretaries of their cto and so on.

[kneebonian]

Tell that to SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, or a dozen other enterprise software vendors.

[chii]

> you are losing traction and your competitors will win

i mean, unless your competitor produces order of magnitude less bugs than you, how can this be true?