Hacker News with Generative AI: Technical Debt

"just" is a four letter word (neverjust.net)
Picture yourself wrestling with a complex problem - maybe it's an elusive bug in a legacy codebase, or a fragile system architecture held together by workarounds and technical debt. You've invested countless hours diving deep into the problem, meticulously mapping out dependencies and edge cases. Your mind is swimming with implementation details when someone casually drops in to say:

Software Development, Debugging, Technical Debt

7 points by markflorkowski 10 hours ago | 3 comments

How Google measures and manages tech debt (techworld-with-milan.com)
Google recently faced this challenge at scale – a substantial percentage of its engineers reported being blocked by “unnecessary complexity and technical debt” in internal surveys.

Google, Technical Debt, Software Engineering, Management

44 points by daigoba66 19 hours ago | 29 comments

Debts, Tech and Otherwise (newardassociates.com)
While people debate the validity of "tech debt", others are asking, "What other sorts of 'debt' do we have in software development and delivery?"

Software Development, Technical Debt, Software Delivery

45 points by BerislavLopac 39 days ago | 17 comments

BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021) (ariadne.space)
A side effect of the whole freenode kerfluffle is that I’ve been looking at IRCD again. IRC, is of course a very weird and interesting place, and the smaller community of people who run IRCDs are largely weirder and even more interesting.

Operating Systems, Technical Debt, IRC, Software

121 points by thunderbong 131 days ago | 107 comments

Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference? (liblab.com)
Some people see technical debt as a list of missing features, but it should be a list of the problems that you know you have to vs want to solve.

Software Development, Technical Debt, Programming

41 points by mbastos 142 days ago | 40 comments

Is Cultural Technical Debt Sabotaging Our Survival? (joanwestenberg.com)
Technical debt occurs when software development relies on quick-fix solutions or outdated code to keep systems running smoothly. These temporary patches often serve immediate needs, but over time, they accumulate, slowing down performance and complicating future changes.

Software Development, Technical Debt, Culture

12 points by lamename 170 days ago | 4 comments

A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018) (riotgames.com)
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL. I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I want to find it, I want to understand it, and where possible, I want to fix it.

Software Development, Technical Debt, Engineering Management

294 points by jakey_bakey 222 days ago | 75 comments

Microservices Are Technical Debt (youtube.com)

Microservices, Software Architecture, Technical Debt

27 points by faizshah 229 days ago | 14 comments

Engineer's guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt (eng-leadership.com)
But convincing a product manager (PM) to prioritize it over shiny new features? That’s a whole different challenge.

Software Development, Product Management, Technical Debt

45 points by samsepi01 244 days ago | 27 comments

Not Another Technical Debt Article (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

Technical Debt, Software Development, Software Engineering

11 points by mooreds 278 days ago | 9 comments

Linux Technical Debt: A Visual Explanation (Directory Entries/struct dirent) (youtube.com)