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.
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