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The Hidden Cost of Tech Debt: Why Your Codebase Feels Like a House of Cards
How small shortcuts today turn into massive engineering nightmares tomorrow.
“We’ll fix it later…”
Ah, famous last words! If I had a rupee for every time I heard this phrase in a sprint planning meeting, I’d be retired on a beach in Goa by now. But let’s be real — how often does “later” actually come? More often than not, that quick hack becomes a permanent fixture in your codebase, lurking like a time bomb. And before you know it, your once sleek project starts resembling a Jenga tower, just one bad commit away from collapsing.
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This, my friend, is tech debt — the silent killer of productivity and sanity in software development.
What is Tech Debt, Really?
Imagine you’re building a house. You run out of bricks, so you use cardboard for one of the walls, thinking, I’ll replace it when I have time. But life happens, deadlines keep coming, and soon, that cardboard wall is holding up the entire second floor. One day, the whole thing comes crashing down.
That’s exactly what happens with tech debt in software projects. Developers take shortcuts — whether due…
