Post #2044018

@GeoffreyWinn Simple format: technical debt is the amount of undocumented, complex, hard-to-maintain code or software architecture that developers put in their projects, and if they ever leave, all of that is lost and the remaining devs (or the upcoming ones) will not know what to do with it. If they touch it, it has high risk of breaking, and if they don't, it then won't be possible to optimize or enhance it. Since it's tech-related, and hard to recover, that's why it's called "technical debt".