Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated
by ilyt on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:32PM
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But way too many times it is used as an excuse. If you are startup, fair enough.
If you have existing consumers, it's not. Spend that extra 20% making code maintainable or not picking the quickest possible solution. Spend that extra 40% on planning and designing feature that will be in your product for next 5 years
Right, but we always do that. We always make some tradeoff to get things shipped faster. And that's fine, otherwise we wouldn't ship things. It's a balance - and the general meta of "all technical debt bad" is harmful to actually building working software.