"Good code" will never be the same for me. I used to be obsessed with the right abstractions, design patterns, elegance, cohesion, and a bunch of other metrics. These are still important. But they aren't the main thing I look for anymore. Good code solves a real problem, is easy for teammates to understand, and is ready to ship to real users. ← This is my current definition. By the way, there's an entire new generation of developers who don't (and probably never will) care about code purity as we did.