technical debt

“I think most good engineering teams sort of look at technical debt like a credit card, right? You know, a balance of zero means you're probably not leveraging it enough. And if you owe Amex a 150,000 dollars, that's probably not good either.”

“I actually think technical debt is almost less of an issue over time, particularly with generative AI, which is actually incredibly forgiving of how you integrate it. You don't have to have like perfect systems like you perhaps used to, or certainly not as mon…”

“Like you have to earn the right to exist in the future and paying down tech debt doesn't pay the bills. And so I think at that stage, it's probably a little bit early to start paying down technical debt.”

“There's a big research initiative. We've started at Microsoft research about a year ago where like the whole mission of the lab is like eliminate tech debt at scale using these new AI tools.”

“You actually want evidence of technical debt affecting revenue, affecting customer outcomes. And you want to compile the evidence because otherwise if you don't have evidence or you just refer it to as like technical debt overall, it is just like, you can go f…”