Technical debt, minus the jargon: every shortcut you take to ship faster is a loan against your codebase. It charges interest — slower features, more bugs, changes that used to take a day taking a week.
Debt isn't evil. Unmanaged debt is. Keep it in check:
Make it visible — a list everyone sees, not tribal knowledge.
Schedule paydown — a fixed slice of each sprint.
Refactor hot paths first — highest interest, fastest payoff.
a debt item worth tracking
what: auth module bypasses the service layer
interest: every new endpoint duplicates logic
payoff: refactor once → faster + fewer bugs
Borrow when it's worth it, repay before it compounds. That's the discipline.
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