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In business it doesn't matter how you reach a goal. It's not about clean code, it's about getting fast, working results to a specific problem.

That really depends on your business. If you make an operating system, for instance, clean code is probably in your best interest.

Ever see early versions of Linux? As Richard Gabriel says, worse is often better...

Now aircraft control systems or MRI machines...you probably want very clean code.