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by eric_h 3830 days ago
The technical debt referred to in the article is inadvertent (i.e. bad) technical debt. Ideally a good code base should have none of that. Intentional technical debt on the other hand (imperfectly factored code produced with the purpose of getting something out the door now rather than later) is a totally different animal and is a "finance" instrument that can be used responsibly.