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> As in a restaurant, people care about the food, not the cook.

The health inspectors care about both the food and the cook, and the latter's workflow is certainly scrutinized.

If we're going to beat this analogy to a bloody pulp, the health inspector in software land would be technical debt and colleagues.

Not taking care of the process will bury the project, and the users with it. Ryan Dahl's brilliant, but I don't think his entire statement should be adhered to verbatim. It's solid guiding principle, nothing more.



No, the health inspector would be non-existing in most software shops.

What a different industry it would be if all software required independent audits and the public could get access to the results.


Colleagues are non existent in most software shops? I obviously didn't imply there was some independent software inspection service.

I care about how code is written, because I'll have to work on it. My employers care about how code is written, because our reputation is on the line.

It's about solving problems, certainly, but workflows directly contribute to solving problems better, faster and more reliably.




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