If typesetting and a grammar mistake in one sentence were what made a book viable or not, authors would care. I've seen enough (crazy expensive) bugs that could have been caught by linters and bugs introduced through insane formatting and style choices that I can't agree that a book and software are all that comparable.
I'm on team "agree at the beginning and then make it part of CI" and I basically never have to have this conversation more than once or twice per project now but I also think that the people most obsessed with it and dwell on it for their personal daily work are problematic, as are the people who hate any rules whatsoever and want to write complete shit code to just call the job done because "that's the important part".
I'm on team "agree at the beginning and then make it part of CI" and I basically never have to have this conversation more than once or twice per project now but I also think that the people most obsessed with it and dwell on it for their personal daily work are problematic, as are the people who hate any rules whatsoever and want to write complete shit code to just call the job done because "that's the important part".