Peter Naur has written before about the problems of ramping up new people on old codebases: http://akkartik.name/naur.pdf http://akkartik.name/naur.pdf I think

Peter Naur has written before about the problems of ramping up new people on old codebases: http://akkartik.name/naur.pdf http://akkartik.name/naur.pdf I think this is the essential tech debt (and so shows up the essential problem with that framing; you aren't so much going into debt as selling yourself into slavery, because the debt will never be repaid). I work on this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533139