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Funny thing is that technical debt is not like money debt. There is a lot of possibilities that this debt will just be deleted, obsoleted, project discontinued.
by ozim 9y ago
Funny thing is that technical debt is not like money debt. There is a lot of possibilities that this debt will just be deleted, obsoleted, project discontinued.
So it is more like survivorship bias, you only get to fix debt that is still alive. Debt that went away and no one is ever paying it is nowhere to be seen.
- PeterisP 9y agoBankruptcy is one way to erase debt, and the most horrible debts go out that way. So it's like survivorship bias, where the most important technical debt (the one that kills its project) is often not noticed.