The Real Cost of Technical Debt
Technical debt isn't bad code, it's a decision made under a deadline that someone forgot to revisit. The interest compounds quietly until a small change takes a week.
The teams that manage it well don't eliminate it, they track it, the same way they'd track financial debt, with a plan for when it gets paid down.
Ignoring it entirely is a choice too, just one that shows up later as slower releases and a team that's afraid to touch the codebase.
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