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How to Know If Your Development Team's Code Quality Will Bite You Later
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This reframes code quality into four things a non-technical founder can actually observe: how fast the team still ships, how often a fix breaks something else, how long a new developer takes to get productive, and how often you deploy. Those map directly onto your question of whether a new person can safely change the code. It also puts a rough money figure on ignoring the problem.
- Watch velocity, regression rate, onboarding time, deploy frequency
- Slow onboarding usually means hard-to-understand code
- Poor quality quietly costs six figures over a year
