The article seems to repeatedly confuse product quality with code quality, as if they're interchangeable. They're not, and that confusion pretty much undermines the entire argument.

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vkgcr 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Product quality is an emergent property of code quality.

	▲	Nekorosu 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Code base is an emergent property of a product (that can have no code at all in practice). I'd even argue that the less code a product needs, the better — with no code being the ideal.