Technical debt
A corporate euphemism for "we built it wrong the first time" that makes poor engineering decisions sound like a sophisticated financial concept, usually used to justify why everything is broken.
Examples
Examples:
- "We have a lot of technical debt." (we built everything wrong and now it's falling apart)
- "Technical debt is slowing us down." (our terrible code is making everything impossible)
- "We need to address our technical debt." (we need to rebuild everything from scratch)
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euphemismwrongengineeringbrokenrebuild
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