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> Financial debt does not slow you down, technical debt does slow down work. It slows down your spending, or it ought to. Instead of spending money, technical
by collyw 8y ago
> Financial debt does not slow you down, technical debt does slow down work.
It slows down your spending, or it ought to.
Instead of spending money, technical debt is spending time.
- waterlink 8y agoInteresting. Then, in one month of time, you can potentially have 5000$ or 5M$ in finances available. In time though, in one month, you can have only one month. It is true, it is spending your time. But it seems like this time is much more precious resource than money. What do you think?
- watwut 8y agoIt also causes bugs, up to infinite cycle of bugs making you being able to finish the thing. It causes higher turn over with precisely engineers who care the most leaving the most likely. It makes it easier for less capable or qualified people to stay and it creates culture that makes it impossible to create good code even when you all actually have enough time. It makes accountability harder and politics among team uglier.