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TECHNICAL DEBT is like a ROTTING ROOF

On rainy days, it's too wet to fix it.
On sunny days, there's no leak… so you ignore it.
Then one day, boom, ceiling caves in, buckets everywhere, and you're duct taping production at 2am.

That's technical debt.
Not just messy code. Not just bad practices.
It's what you chose not to fix when you could have.

The missing tests.
The config you hardcoded "just for now".
The abstraction you skipped because "it works".
The one extra iteration after the ticket was marked as "done".

And now it's slowing you down.
It's holding your future hostage.
You're spending engineering cycles bailing water, not shipping value.

We love to say we're "building", but half the time we're just… leak managers.
You can't scale rot.

So next time the sun's out, fix the roof.
Because when the rain hits, it's too late.

Coding is easier than ever. That’s why no one actually codes anymore.

Once, compiling took 30 minutes. Now, downloading dependencies does.

I started with a text editor, every line deliberate, every recompile an ordeal. My code was built to last. No frameworks, few dependencies, a simple bash script to build & deploy.

Now? I compile in milliseconds… only to wait hours for linters, CI/CD, IaC, PR rituals & YAML sacrifices. I am no longer an engineer. I am a high priest in a temple of abstraction.

Performance? A joke. Code once ran fast because it had to. Today, it’s an obese stack of best-practice boilerplate. Innovation? No, just rebranded complexity.

Legacy? We create it faster than ever. The lifespan of a framework is measured in months. But don’t worry, we’ll rebrand it & call it progress.

It’s expected for management to not understand some technical implications, but what surprised me is how engineers in the past, who moved to management, eventually forget the complexity of the job and only remember how everything is possible and potentially easy to do.

These real life analogies always put a smile on my face, once they make things hard to explain so obvious and ridiculous.