Technical debt is often discussed as if it were a moral failure. In practice, a shortcut is simply a trade: speed now in exchange for a future constraint.
The debt becomes expensive when it is invisible. Name the trade, leave a small note about the pressure that caused it, and review it when the surrounding product changes.
A healthy team does not eliminate every shortcut. It keeps the important ones legible.
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