technical debt

noun

Etymology

Coined by American computer programmer Ward Cunningham in 1992.

Definitions

  1. The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior…

    The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for technical debt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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