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Technical debt is dead, the metaphor is broken
- itmitica 5mo agoHmmm. My tomorrow understanding may be worst than that of today. Time passing is no guarantee for elevated intelligence. Time to live for said solution is a practical factor that could and should settle the complexity issue of the solution, which may also turn into exploratory curiosity-enhanced over engineered solution. Finally, all solutions have technical debts. Unavoidably sublime. We just choose to look the other way in most cases.
- cranky908canuck 5mo agoThis popped up on a casual search: https://medium.com/@antonellosemeraro/technical-debt-is-not-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option-b0ea3820cece https://medium.com/@antonellosemeraro/technical-debt-is-not-... (paywalled, looks like a decent and recent writeup from what I can see of it, and the essence is above the fold). Not sure why Ward Cunningham missed this, I expect in corporate finance (not stock trading) options trading (for profit, not hedging) isn't common.