Comment by nomel

Tech debt is what most orgs/managers ask for. If nobody is complaining, there's no problem. Nobody but you knows what's behind the scenes until they ask for something new that the tech debt makes take longer than you think it should. But they don't perceive it that way, because they're probably not software people. They just see it as a new ask that will take a bit longer than expected.

Nobody cares about quality, if they can't perceive it. They want practical results. AI will give that to them, to some degree. Most people don't see software as deterministic anyways, so sometimes not working doesn't register as the monumental, show stopping, failure that it would me or you.