#techdebt

The engineering argument for paying down tech debt almost never won. What got it funded was a promise, and it tended to be my name on the promise.

Change one line in the tls module and you've signed up for twelve releases. That's not a bug in the architecture, that's the architecture.

This week I worked on two things that ended up being really connected to each other: an end-to-end...

Tech debt is not a moral failing - it is a loan. Every shortcut you shipped bought speed that day and...

Every system I have worked on carried a graveyard, a set of features that were built with enthusiasm,...

Every time I tried to explain technical debt to a business leader early in my career, I watched their...

TL;DR A remediation loop needs only three parts: a scripted harness, one coding agent,...

The industry's currently obsessed with how fast we can generate code. Every morning in our...

Both models passed the tests. Both rewrote a function that was sitting in their own prompt, twenty...

There's a specific kind of silence that hits Microsoft Teams about ten minutes after a high-profile...

The relationship between scalability and technical debt, how they compound over time, and the strategies that work to manage both.

Tech debt isn't just a number; it's a mindset. Regularly assess your codebase for 'quick fixes' that...