alt Hacker News> I’ve never gotten fired from a software engineering job for moving slower and building things that work well, work predictably, and are built to last.
In most companies, that’s not how it plays out. Once something works, you’re immediately moved on to the next task. If you’ve had the time and space to refine, polish, and carefully craft your code, you’ve been fortunate.
The person who signals that some task works and is finished is you. You have way more control over this than you are giving yourself credit for.
If you spend your career acquiescing to every request to “just ship it” then, yes, slowing down a second to do a quality pass will seem impossible. But you really can just do it.