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tech debt
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#1·4h ago
Accumulated cost of shortcuts taken in code. Like financial debt, it compounds — the longer you wait, the harder future changes become.
"We need a week to pay down auth tech debt before we add SSO."
Origin: Metaphor coined by Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki) in 1992.
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