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If you can feel that way about your work, but still understand that this approach has its own benefits, you're probably a really good person to hire when a startup does hit scaling issues from their crappy original code!

Knowing thyself is a superpower all its own; we need people to write scrappy code to validate a business idea, and we need people who look at code with disgust, throw it out, and write something 100x as efficient.




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