Ask HN: Why is software quality an afterthought for many people/companies?
Companies do care about code quality, but it&#x27;s not the same kind of quality. This is the purpose of QA. Every company that has a QA team cares about quality at least enough to hire a full-time person responsible for it.<p>When developers talk about &quot;quality,&quot; they mean tech debt. Addressing tech debt is problematic for businesses because it&#x27;s something that never ends. You allocate one month for tech debt and the devs will ask for two. Allocate two and they will ask for three. There is no agreed-upon standard at which devs will stop and say, &quot;Now our code is clean.&quot;<p>Add to this the fact that there are many developers who just always seem to have an agenda about the code they&#x27;re working on. They never work a project except they&#x27;re dying to add some pattern or change some aspect of the code, even if it&#x27;s something that they used to favor a year ago.