> I now have no idea what technical debt means in popular use. They define it as "the effort to model the problem, developing algorithms, collecting samples, a

> I now have no idea what technical debt means in popular use. They define it as "the effort to model the problem, developing algorithms, collecting samples, and inquiring expert knowledge" (end of page 4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03028.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03028.pdf) I, and I believe everyone I've worked with, believes it to be the cost of future work required to fix/change a decision your making now. Literally the opposite of what they say: the upfront cost of developing a system.