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Technical Debt

Also known as tech debt, technical-debt

Shortcuts taken to ship faster that make future changes slower. Like a loan — fine briefly, expensive if never repaid.

Example

Hard-coding prices to launch this week means every price change is a code change later.

Related terms

Scalability
Whether you can serve many more customers without your costs or effort rising just as fast.
Backlog
The running list of everything you might build, ordered by priority but not yet scheduled.

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