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The problem with "technical debt" as a meme is twofold: It's a lousy analogy, and people tend to label absolute garbage as "tech debt". The garbage is not a t
by slumdev 6y ago
The problem with "technical debt" as a meme is twofold: It's a lousy analogy, and people tend to label absolute garbage as "tech debt". The garbage is not a tool to enable quick growth. It's not a shortcut. It's just garbage.
"Technical debt" conversations usually go something like this:
Me: "Could we spend a few hours getting a handle on what the data model should look like? Maybe rough out a crude ER diagram?"
PHB: "Oh slumdev, you're such a Boy Scout. Just blam it into a document store. If something changes, we'll just be Agile about it. Technical debt is a tool!"
- Aeolun 6y agoCue 300% increase in development time.
- Viliam1234 6y agoOvertime and on-call duty come to save the day.
- Aeolun 6y agoAh, yes, if we just work 160 hours per week we can just about get it done at the originally estimated time. I guess that means you can take an hour long nap every day to recover before your next shift.