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0 pointsmattmanser9y ago0 comments

Saying that technical debt is only deliberate is an old argument[1], but usage defines meaning and modern usage is that "technical debt" is a catch-all term. It just means bad code we know should be fixed.

[1] 2009 - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

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czinck9y ago

Stretching the debt analogy, you can go bankrupt from payday loans (the "just push it out" tech debt) and from getting too big of a mortgage to build/fix up a house (over-engineered tech debt).

taeric9y ago

That seems to indicate it is a worthless term, then.

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