Are you working as a developer? If so, how do I join your team? In my life as a developer I have deadlines that are set by customers and no amount of explanation that I need another week to make the code bomb-proof will shift them.

I've heard about jobs like that, but I would never take one. There are far less insane developer jobs out there, and you could try to find one!

Development time is inherently very hard to predict, so strict deadlines - even if set by people who understand the technical issues don't make a lot of sense. There many books on this, and I won't try to summarize them here.

Still, if you have a deadline, you can use your time however you want before the deadline, right? So if it's better/faster to clean up the code after you made it work than to try to type everything perfectly the first time, what's stopping you?

Or is it that the deadlines are so tight that you only have time to write terrible code?