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Post #2043996
2023-09-27 16:28 UTC
@pierstoval @anthonywilliams I don't think that this captures that it is more about making future modifications more difficult rather than a direct problem. A hole in a roof is a bug. Technical debt isn't a bug, but it can make avoiding bugs more costly.
I think a better ELI5 would be "technical debt is like buying cheap scissors. They're cheaper, and they might *work*, but they're going to make building your next arts and crafts project more difficult"
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@anthonywilliams@mastodon.social 2023-09-27 16:40
@malwareminigun @pierstoval True. Originally Technical Debt was about making a choice to do something cheaper/less well now for some benefit (e.g. time to market), and defer the cost of that until later. These days it is often used to mean something that is less than ideal about the current codebase, so a leaky roof could be a more reasonable analogy. I like the cheap scissors idea though