My intention was not to imply that bad, difficult-to-debug programming makes someone more likely to start a business.

The issues with Flex in the past with viewing/editing attributes on a complex parent.child.subchild model are in the past (they fixed the issues). His code was not "bad, difficult to debug" it was "risky" in the sense that Flex didn't support it in a previous release.

When I told him that his code was risky, I said it with a half-serious tone (e.g. half joking). Rereading the post indicates that the tone of the post and the tone of the original comment never carried through. I apologize.