word
Technical Debt
TEK-nih-kul det
/ˈtɛknɪkəl dɛt/Listen
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technicaldebt
Dictionary meaning
The implied cost of additional work caused by choosing easy short-term solutions over better long-term ones — coined by Ward Cunningham (1992); writing quick, messy code accumulates debt that must eventually be 'repaid' through refactoring; the 'interest' is the extra work the messiness causes; the biggest cause of software project failures
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