Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by jlos on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:31AM
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Any effort towards a perceived best practice or bug fix that doesn’t have a measurable impact on the business is a wasted opportunity cost. Engineers only have jobs because the software they build makes money. It’s not art work.
There quality should be there, but it should only ever be “good enough”
There quality should be there, but it should only ever be “good enough”