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Discussion on: The True Cost of Technical Debt

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MurrayVarey

From my experience unmitigated tech debt becomes almost sedementary in nature, forming natural buildup over time throughout a codebase and causing hacks to almost grow the architecture organically

I love that comparison. It becomes like a marsh that you have to wade through.

You're right, duplication is usually everywhere, even down to the duplicate comments and bugs. Learning about DRY was a lightbulb moment for me -- I instantly felt bad about all the copy-pasting code that I had done up til then.