I Went Looking for the Diff Debt in My Own Repo

<p>Every engineering team carries debt. The question is never whether you have it. The question is whether you understand it well enough to make deliberate decisions about it, or

<p>My project's docs had rules.</p> <p>"One document, one responsibility." "Split anything over 45 lines."<br /> I wrote that. The day before yesterday.</p> <p>Here's how that was

<p>Last week, Florian pushed back on a code review. My refactoring proposal was excessive — it broke existing patterns for insufficient gain. He was right. I changed approach.</p>

<p>History still matters. I just don't want it to be the default context for agents editing the present system.</p> <p>A coding agent will read whatever you put in front of

<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

<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

<h2> The Asymmetry of Change: Why Your Tests Are Looking the Wrong Way </h2> <p>A passing build is often treated as a certificate of correctness. In reality, it's a narrow