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Tech debt is much less important than many developers think it is. More sales over chasing tech debt almost every time.
by brianwawok 3mo ago
Tech debt is much less important than many developers think it is. More sales over chasing tech debt almost every time.
- dboreham 3mo agoOf course. But as an old sales guy used to tell me: "In the story, at the end the wolf shows up".
- datsci_est_2015 3mo ago“Chasing tech debt” vs “more sales” is a false dichotomy. A dangerous one, too, if you simply expand “chasing tech debt” to “listening to engineering concerns”. That’s how you end up with a Boeing.
- bunderbunder 3mo agoI’ve seen many products die sudden, violent deaths due to unmanaged technical debt. If you have customers who care about quality and reliability, you simply cannot set up a false dichotomy between selling product and managing technical debt. That said, I would also concede that over the past decade or two the clean code movement has made a damn strong effort of poisoning the term by trying to characterize technically inconsequential aesthetic concerns as technical debt.