> tech debt is not always bad. Using MongoDB to prototype ideas or writing an ugly function that does abusive things to solve a critical bug can be justified, a

> tech debt is not always bad. Using MongoDB to prototype ideas or writing an ugly function that does abusive things to solve a critical bug can be justified, and the optimal way to do things. It’s just a matter of doing so deliberately. I've seen this put slightly differently before: technical debt is like financial debt. Drowning in it is obviously bad, but it has its place, and it's typically unwise to aim to never take on debt.