This pre-supposes a team of people who care about technical debt. I remember Eclipse in the early 2000s was already doing this (FIXME, TODO and something else I

This pre-supposes a team of people who care about technical debt. I remember Eclipse in the early 2000s was already doing this (FIXME, TODO and something else IIRC). In my experience there are lot of productive programmers who, overall, add value (stuff gets done, it's not a bug-infested disaster) but simply don't care. Might not even have heard the expression technical debt. Might care more about short-term reputation wins from Getting Stuff Done. They aren't going to leave TODOs.