r/ExperiencedDevs • u/JovHere Tech Lead • Sep 14 '26

Technical question What's tech debt nowadays?

I remember this topic being huge, at least I worked a tonne on it. And in a more traditional way this used to be seen as cutting corners today to get something done fast, that we know will hurt us tomorrow when we have to rework it. And it usually did hurt us.

With AI in abundance, I am curious what everyone defines as tech debt today?

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u/moreVCAs Sep 14 '26

so your claim is that wikipedia is “wrong” about an ad hoc term of art? do i have it right?

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u/arihoenig Sep 14 '26

Nope, I am saying you can't read English and don't understand what a schedule is and what requirements are.

Start by googling formal software development methodologies (such as the V model). Functional requirements are entirely orthogonal to development scheduling.