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>As for your other points: maybe one of my team members produces consistently more technical debt than the others. Is it still technical debt? ??? Why wouldn'

• Udik 10y ago
  >>I often have the impression that the term "technical debt" is just an euphemism to avoid admitting that someone in the team has produced poorly thought and poorly written code >Creating lots of extra technical debt, in fact, is a defining feature of poorer developers. I think we agree then. It's just that "technical debt" makes it sound- to me at least- inevitable and impersonal, while it is possible (at least for substantial amounts of it) to ascribe it to specific people and to avoid it by hiring better people.