Technical debt is not a thing. It’s made up by people who want things done in a different way than they currently are. All currently good design recommendatio

Technical debt is not a thing. It’s made up by people who want things done in a different way than they currently are. All currently good design recommendations will become wrong ones in the future. Today’s best practice is tomorrow’s technical debt. There is just code that works and makes the company money, and code that doesn’t work. Code that is readable and code that is not readable. Starting out with “the right design” will become the wrong design when the market changes and the specs change under your feet. Moving fast and making software that meets market needs requires going back and finding parts that need to be consolidated. It’s just how building software in the non-trilllion-dollar-company-or-in-academy world works.