What does your code look like?

Anyone who has written code for a while has probably come across someone claiming that "Customers don't care about what your code looks like."

When said in good faith, it seems that the intent is to raise awareness about making good trade-offs. Otherwise, it's often a defensive statement against trauma caused by unreasonable engineers in the past, or that one is trying to push a different agenda for short-term gains at the expense of the code quality of a shared code base.

Regardless, it's just generally a terrible statement that's easily misunderstood. Of course customers don't care about what the actual code looks like (unless the code is the product and your customers are software engineers?); however, they absolutely do care about how quickly bugs are fixed and features are developed — and having good code quality does make a tangible difference.

What are you working on and what does your code look like?