Is it Better to Code with a Results-Oriented or Process-Oriented Approach?

While thinking today, I realized that some of the things I've been doing have been result-oriented what mattered was just the output. I noticed that when I focus purely on the output, I end up not caring at all about infrastructure and design decisions. Whereas if I had taken a process-oriented approach, I would have reflected on what I was writing as I went, and I would have learned much more. I'm not sure if this counts as something philosophical, but I wanted to ask anyway. I don't use soci...