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Technical debt means guaranteed work in the future for software developers. I only say this half-jokingly.

• astrange 6y ago
  The problem is that it gets exponentially harder to fix something the later you do it. Even if you wait a few years it could be easier to rewrite from scratch than fix a large bug. Btw, people bring up a features vs. speed tradeoff here and I don't think it's true - in my experience perf issues come from stupid random bugs more often than they're fundamental parts of new features. There is definitely a development time vs speed tradeoff, though; the best way to save time here is to have really good regression tests.