I am perfectly glad for all the things I did not do when they were not needed.
Designing and building amphibian hovercraft monorail dumptruck racecars for all those projects that only ever needed a wheelbarrow is just a diffetent form of technical debt. It's not investment because it never pays off. It's just work that does not produce output, that you pay before instead of after.
It only takes a little bit of thought to avoid the normal idea of technical debt where past thoughtlessness costs you work today. Plain old modularity, seperation of concerns, avoiding tight coupling, and not even those religiously but just as a prefference or guiding direction, pretty much takes care of the future.
I am perfectly glad for all the things I did not do when they were not needed.
Designing and building amphibian hovercraft monorail dumptruck racecars for all those projects that only ever needed a wheelbarrow is just a diffetent form of technical debt. It's not investment because it never pays off. It's just work that does not produce output, that you pay before instead of after.
It only takes a little bit of thought to avoid the normal idea of technical debt where past thoughtlessness costs you work today. Plain old modularity, seperation of concerns, avoiding tight coupling, and not even those religiously but just as a prefference or guiding direction, pretty much takes care of the future.