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how much future-you will curse present-you, quantified.
means the degree to which software can be understood, fixed, and extended without everyone involved losing their minds.
from emerged from software engineering in the 1970s alongside the 'software crisis,' when people realized code costs more to maintain than to write — a truth so painful it needed its own metric.
biggest costmaintenance eats 60-80% of software budgets
main enemytechnical debt compounds like actual debt
measured bycomplexity, coupling, and comment quality combined
ironic twistclever code is often the least maintainable kind