Comment by zoul
9 hours ago
Would you keep fixing the underlined spelling mistakes on your “watch out for holes in the pavement” sign while people are already walking there?
9 hours ago
Would you keep fixing the underlined spelling mistakes on your “watch out for holes in the pavement” sign while people are already walking there?
There are contexts where quick and dirty and (hopefully) come back later are warranted. Far more often it is just an excuse for shoddy work. You used the word “perfection” as the contrast to “technical debt”. Granted, technical debt is not a well defined term, but I am simply highlighting that “free from technical debt” in no way implies anything like perfect. It just implies well made.
My argument works just as well if you replace “perfecting” with “improving”.
Technical debt is not a current defect. It just means that for the sake of having something quickly done today, you accept that the cost of changing stuff tomorrow will be greater than normal. If you never have to change something (switching jobs, consultancy project you don’t care about,…) then it may be a great trade off.