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"Second, because if you write good code chances are that the product you are building will be much better."

If "better" means anything related to user experience, adoption or commercial success I think that correlation is about zero. Even the dumbest idea can be implemented by good code.

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I would have expected better to mean, in this circumstance, less likelihood of there being issues that impact the user - something that almost certainly has a correlation! No amount of "good practice" will protect again an idea being rubbish.

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