I’ve spent the last few years rather flippantly stating, “Technical debt doesn’t exist.”
What I was trying to say was, “I’m deeply uncomfortable with how our industry talks about this thing, I think it’s probably harmful, but I don’t know quite how to express what I mean. Also, given that everyone seems to be really focused on this tech debt concept, I’m kind of worried that the problem is me, not the term or the industry”.
When I first heard Peter Norvig say, “All code is liability”, that felt closer to right.
via Towards an understanding of technical debt – Laughing Meme