Technical Debt Bankruptcy
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Technical debt is borrowing against future development speed for current delivery. Technical debt bankruptcy is when that debt has compounded so aggressively that every new feature takes 3x longer, every bug fix introduces 2 new bugs, and the team has stopped even trying to understand the codebase. At that point, you declare bankruptcy — rewrite from scratch.
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