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mastodon.social/@raiderrobert/115310124991455455I don't like the phrase "Technical Debt". It's effectively lost all meaning.
I always need to ask, "what about it is technical debt?"
I've gotten a variety of responses:
- the abstractions are wrong
- the performance is bad
- the technology is out of date
- it's undocumented
- I don't know the tech
That last one in particular when someone told me, "It's technical debt because I don't know the tech," is when I knew the phrase had lost all meaning.