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Technical debt is a metaphor about intentionally making tradeoffs. If engineers are unskilled, it's unlikely that they can do that. All problem code is not tec

Technical debt is a metaphor about intentionally making tradeoffs. If engineers are unskilled, it's unlikely that they can do that. All problem code is not technical debt. https://www.castsoftware.com/blog/ward-cunningham-capers-jones-a-discussion-on-technical-debt https://www.castsoftware.com/blog/ward-cunningham-capers-jon...

rileymat2 4y ago
If you are hiring unskilled engineers to push the product out faster, isn't that just management intentionally making a trade off for technical debt?
- zwkrt 4y ago
  Right but that starts to sound like organizational debt, which I think is reasonable to treat differently.