[negoutputeng]

exactly right.

POCs and demos are easy to build by anyone these days. The last 10% is what separates student projects from real products.

any engineer who has spent time in the trenches understands that fixing corner cases in code produced by inexperienced engineers consumes a lot of time.

in fact, poor overall design and lack of diligence tanks entire projects.

[MrMcCall]

Sometimes it's not even inexperienced coders -- it's our own dang selves ;-)

[SketchySeaBeast]

Well, in my mind, the SketchySeaBeast of last week is inexperienced compared to the SketchySeaBeast of this one.