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by deltaonefour 1453 days ago
He hasn't been in the industry long enough to see that most of the pillars of software engineering are built on top of massive tech debt.

When I say tech debt I mean design flaws created by designer who simply could not anticipate the future. I'm not talking about bugs, mistakes or intentional shortcuts.

Whether jenkins is "tech debt" is a different topic. But whether Jenkins is here to stay past 2025 has nothing to do with how well it's designed.