Comments by "" (@brownhorsesoftware3605) on "Types Of Technical Debt And How To Manage Them" video.

Thanks for another very enjoyable video! I prefer to think in terms of code base stability. The term technical debt reminds me of the IBM mainframe term for program crash: abend. As in abnormal end. Your program has abended they would say. It is not wrong but also not very descriptive of the situation: you have confused the processor, it has given up, dumped its memory, and continued on its way. Technical debt just does not describe the escalation of problems that can happen in an unstable system. I have made a career of refactoring code bases into stability. That is most of the task on the 'system' side: programs that run other programs. Most of the effort is in coming to understand what is there and how and where it can be improved.
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