the.com/technical debt
the code equivalent of skipping the dentist because you're busy — compounding interest guaranteed.
means the future cost of extra work created when you choose a quick, easy fix now instead of a better, slower solution.
from coined by programmer ward cunningham in 1992, who compared shipping messy code to borrowing money — fine short term, brutal once interest accrues.
coinerward cunningham, also invented the wiki
interest rategrows with every dependent line of code
payoff methodrefactoring, the least fun sprint task
denial costeventually rewrite everything anyway