alt Hacker NewsAll tech debt I have ever seen in my 15 years of professional software development has been someone building too many abstractions or generalizations trying to future proof stuff.
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zeroonetwothree • today at 7:27 PM
That’s the opposite of the typical definition of tech debt.
Usually tech debt is debt—-ie something you take on to ship faster now at the expense of paying it in the long run.
cauch • today at 7:34 PM
I would say: if the feature is from a developer, high probability of YAGNI, if the feature is from a user, medium probability of YAGNI.
That's interesting, because it's not my experience. A lot of the technical debt I see is that someone half-assed something thinking it would be easy to improve later, but the layer violations and inadequate tests make doing so a massive project, once it's become load-bearing.