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Stop saying “technical debt” - Stack Overflow

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Everyone who says "tech debt" assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual definitions differ quite a bit.

[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2024.] We were supposed to release this feature three weeks ago. One developer got caught in a framework update. Another got stuck reorganizing the feature flags. A third needed to spelunk a long-abandoned repository to initiate the database changes. The team is underwater. Every feature release will feel like this until we get a few weeks to dig ourselves out of tech debt. We have no idea h

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