Technical Debt: When to Fix, When to Ship

<h2> What technical debt actually means, and how to explain it to someone who doesn't write code </h2> <p>An engineer asks for two sprints to "pay down technical debt," and the

<h2> Technical Debt in SaaS Companies: Why It's a Runway Problem, Not a Code Problem </h2> <p>Most founders find out they have a technical debt problem the same way. Not from an

<p>Two posts ago I said I'd shipped code I never read. It's easy to write that as a general observation about the industry. It's less comfortable to go open your own repo and

<h2> The Hard Truth About Technical Leadership </h2> <p>You were the best engineer on the team. You shipped faster, debugged deeper, and held the architecture in your head like a

<p>Tech debt is like a snowball; if you don’t address it, it’ll grow and crush you. Make debt repayment part of your sprint goals. It’s an investment in your codebase’s health!</p>

<h1> The Delegation Debt Problem: When Your Agent Owes More Than It Can Deliver </h1> <p>Every autonomous agent system eventually hits the same wall: a pile of obligations it

<p>Technical debt used to be priced mostly in human engineering time.</p> <p>Now it also shows up as AI-agent operating cost.</p> <p>When a repository has unclear ownership, weak

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