wow, i can't tell if its irony or not. who said you can't do trial and error coding without a certain amount of standards, which include coding standards, dry, peer reviews etc.?

sure, you can squeeze out some ok code from bad developers, by making them follow enough conventions. but are they really what you want in your company?

"i don't have a choice, that's not my company and not my employees" - sure you do. build your own