I agree with you that "unhedged call option" is not a phrase most people will get, on the other hand software engineering needs a better vocabulary around tech

I agree with you that "unhedged call option" is not a phrase most people will get, on the other hand software engineering needs a better vocabulary around tech debt. There is a very specific type of tech debt that I think this describes So if you think we need better differentiation of technical debt (which I do) then finance is a good source of those differentiations[1] Personally I've heard tech debt used to describe everything from tightly coupled UI/DB code, to design decisions the person disagreed with, to code without tests. Even though those are obviously 3 different problems. So I'm for increasing the size of our vocabulary [1] I actually wrote a whole article using finance terms to think about tech debt. https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/questions-about-the-debt-in-tech-debt-d651fa08980a https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/questions-about-the-debt-i...