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by WrtCdEvrydy 1812 days ago
"tech debt" is when you decide that you will cut a corner to build something.

If you did it when building a plane, and it killed people, you would go to prison, but in the technology industry, this is acceptable as "the cost of being first"

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Also the cost of understanding the problem more fully. And the cost of discovering a better way to do it.