Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by jimbokun on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:19AM
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> Most software is doghouses.
This is not completely a bad thing. Using skyscraper techniques for dog houses is not sustainable.
The key is to identify when you are working on a skyscraper and when you're working on a dog house and act accordingly. To my mind, the boundary between the two is whether or not you are handling sensitive personally identifiable or financial data.
This is not completely a bad thing. Using skyscraper techniques for dog houses is not sustainable.
The key is to identify when you are working on a skyscraper and when you're working on a dog house and act accordingly. To my mind, the boundary between the two is whether or not you are handling sensitive personally identifiable or financial data.