Should pay for ? (Score 1)

Programming is an intellectual, creative (most of the time) activity where the developer is being paid to create a new artifact using their mind. When a customer hires a graphics designer, should the customer pay for edits or fixes - yes, they do. When a writer or journalist writes an article or book, they are paid to re-edit the work as needed. When engineers and industrial designs iterate on a product, creating hundreds of prototypes , fixing design problems - they are being paid for that. Of course, there is artistry and craftmanship as well. A good developer fixes things with care and comprehension, and avoids band-aid fixes. It is hoped that the quality of that type of code is valued within the organization, so that these developers are rewarded better. There are those developers that don't bother studying the problem and apply a simple patch, which ends up causing new problems later. The company needs to identify these types of fixes - possibly through code review and get rid of people that do this, or train them not to. However, the company made the call to hire this person, and ultimately, they are responsible for that decision and incur costs. It's almost impossible these days to write bug-free code unless you are writing a simple module with well-defined parameters. Most people work on legacy code, or part of large systems where the sheer amount of possible interactions makes it very difficult to predict everything in advance.