tech debt

“Spent 4 hours debugging a 'scaling bottleneck' in a client's app last week. Turns out it was a single unindexed DB query I'd brushed off as 'too small to matter' months ago. Scalability isn't just big architecture moves. It's killing tiny tech debt before it grows teeth.”

“Spot on. Rushed AI pilots create tech debt that compounds. Strategy first ensures the boring integration work pays off long-term.”

“It says nothing about the quality of the code, just the quantity.<br>Tech debt is a trade-off between near term and long term ambitions - it is literally impossible to build a successful project without accruing this kind of debt, simply because you cannot perfectly anticipate the future.”

“For some reason it’s often easier to “spend 10% of time on tech debt” than “spend 10% of time polishing your code to avoid tech debt in the first place”.”

“But the more common pattern that I've seen is that companies that accumulate tech debt but that are doing well commercially eventually gather enough funds to address the tech debt, the companies that try to get the tech 'perfect' the first time out of the gate lose a lot more time, and so run a much larger chance of dying.”