Love this from @pierstoval:
https://mastodon.social/@pierstoval/111133315182556286
I know there’s a plethora of nuanced critiques of the term “technical debt,” and how “debt” is not a perfect metaphor, and how people over-read and misread the concept, and how devs push self-amusement via overengineering by clothing that as tech debt, and and and…
…I still think it’s a great term. It’s a shared shorthand people in many roles know. Applying the metaphor as a quick heuristic, it captures a whole lot that’s true.