[swlkr]

Im not sure whose job it is to only write beautiful code.

If that's the case, zero programmers should be worried.

Beautiful code only tends to exist in open source.

[Arainach]

>Beautiful code only tends to exist in open source.

This hasn't been my experience at all. Beautiful code happens when strong experienced developers are present - either as the authors or as leads instilling good culture on teams. It exists where teams acknowledge that someone (maybe even them) will have to come back to this code in the future. There is plenty of beautiful code inside the non-OSS repositories of Google, Microsoft, and others.

[swlkr]

Oh, I didn't know that, I guess from the outside it never seems that way.