Some of the analogies are a bit strained, but I'm in agreement. Every line of code is technical debt - all of it. The engineering responsibility is to minimize

Some of the analogies are a bit strained, but I'm in agreement. Every line of code is technical debt - all of it. The engineering responsibility is to minimize the rate you pay on the debt, and to make its eventual renegotiation cheaper. It's a liability management exercise that goes on as long as you want to use your system as a working asset.