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Technical Debt

The long-term maintenance cost incurred when code or systems are built quickly and without proper structure, trading short-term speed for future rework and fragility.

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Technical Debt

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  • … Technical debt. And everybody hates technical debt.

  • … We know that agents and LLMs tend to be very verbose by definition, and so it's just too easy to gain that system and then introduce complexity and technical debt into all of the work that you're doing. I will say there are some things…

  • Also, I think keeping a flatter org is helpful. I'd also just say that path dependency is super important.

  • … think as a startup your job is to take on technical debt because that is how you operate faster than a bigger company. Bigger companies don't take contact technical debt, they pay it usually right away, or ...

  • … that's why I think technical debt is one of the most interesting concepts. There's so many companies as well that maybe have big market caps, but I feel like they might have billions ...