>cover up bad code >cover up unfinished work Absolutely this! I think the question that needs to be asked when you have the excuse of time pressure (or another

>cover up bad code >cover up unfinished work Absolutely this! I think the question that needs to be asked when you have the excuse of time pressure (or another excuse) is "well, if you had no time pressure, how would you have done it different?" If they, or you if you are asking yourself this, is "I don't know" then it's not technical debit. It's bullshit. It's just bad code. So much of "technical debt" I see in the codebases I have to work with has nothing to do with time constraints / deadlines / having to get a feature out ASAP, it's just bad code written by bad developers. This needs called out more.