Technical debt is the future cost of shortcuts taken to ship faster today — code or design that will need rework. Like financial debt, it accrues interest: unmanaged, it slows every future change.
Some technical debt is a deliberate, sensible trade-off; the danger is debt that is never repaid. Managing it — through refactoring, tests and clear architecture — keeps a codebase fast to change as it grows.
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