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by threecheese 472 days ago
Nobody cares about tech debt when large orgs are happy to rewrite every workload each decade. Every reorg finds the debt, blames it on “the last guy” (now in management), and they replace some components with new tech. Rinse and repeat.

Source code just isn’t an asset anymore, and it’s been slowly growing since Serverless; genai just accelerated it, and “bucket o’ lambdas” is a valid architecture now.