> The code produced simply doesn't matter. Bitrot is accepted. Nobody cares.

It's a real bug-bear of mine that, in the profession as a whole, this attitude is rarely criticised, and sometimes even praised (especially on HN with the JUST SHIP IT startup mentality).

A lot of people are fine with this and can probably offer a lot of reasons pertaining to business interests, which is fine. Those can be measured, deliberate compromises backed by sound reasoning and opportunity cost. But there's this other school of thought that just thinks, "fuck it, it's just code innit."

And it seems that newcomers to programming (in PHP/on the web) are still being taught at that school.