There is bad technical debt and there is acceptable technical debt. The mark of a good engineer is knowing where to cut the corners - which you will always have

There is bad technical debt and there is acceptable technical debt. The mark of a good engineer is knowing where to cut the corners - which you will always have to do. Hardcoding something in a file rather than pulling it from a config or a database has a pretty good ROI in terms of time saved, and it's not that hard to change later, but tying yourself to, say, a kind of storage that you know is not going to work long-term, that will cost you later. Also, sometimes doing MORE results in more technical debt. If you are going to spend your time building a Kubernetes cluster because "your home page has to be webscale", you are an idiot.