Technical debt is a wonderful ally when building prototypes. Imagine you are building a prototype and you are clever enough to only focus on validating an idea

Technical debt is a wonderful ally when building prototypes. Imagine you are building a prototype and you are clever enough to only focus on validating an idea. Having this focus you ignore all best practices and maintainability issues you might tend to out of habit. What you are likely to end up with is a functioning application that resists change beyond its original goals. And this is good. It lets you declare technical bankruptcy early enough to avoid painful rewrites on a software that was not meant to exist for long anyways.