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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by JTbane on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:39AM (#50367142)
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by asdff on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:26PM (#50373858)
You can remove the word software from that and apply it to almost anything. The whole earth rests on legacy temp fixes.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by SignalsFromBob on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:26PM (#50375179)
Yep. Just like the old saying, "There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution."
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