[onemiketwelve]

I read this as a pretty scathing dressing down of incompetent engineering at reddit. But after having breakfast, what I'm realizing again is that perfect code and engineering are not required to make something hugely successful.

I've been parts of 2 different engineering teams that wrote crap that I would cuss out but were super succesfuly, and most recently I joined a team that was super anal about every little detail. I think business success only gets hindered on the extremes now. If you're somewhere in the middle, it's fine. I'd rather have a buggy product that people use than a perfect codebase that only exists on github.

[eloquenceN]

Agreed. In fact, I believe success stories actually skew the other way. Those that actually build something that gets off the ground and is successful will in many cases not have the time to write perfect code.