alt Hacker NewsI think it all depends on your personal driver: personally I rather see a product I built in whatever way used by ever growing number of people because they find it useful. It means that the time I spent working on that helped other people solving a problem (hopefully).
That’s why a was always keen on cutting some corners when and where necessary in order to think about the user first and the code beauty second.
Of course I appreciate well structured and maintainable code but you can always strike a balance, even with LLMs assisted coding sessions.
I don't even want to put 'my' code or apps out into the wild anymore. I've built a a few things I think are useful and I'm using myself but I'm afraid it'll just get called slop or my only users will be bots. What's the point. So I don't get the joy out of sharing it nor the joy of the achievement. But I've widdled down what I thought was an endless backlog of features to nearly zero, I guess that's something.