Technical debt is a maintenance problem, not a coding problem — here's how AI agents help

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<p>We've all been in that repo. The one where <code>npm install</code> prints 47 warnings, the README still references a <code>v1</code> API that was renamed two years ago, three tests are skipped "for now," and the last meaningful commit on <code>master</code> was a merge from a branch nobody remembers. You clone it, run it, and it kind of works — until it doesn't.</p> <p>We call this technical debt, but that framing is wrong. Debt implies you borrowed something on purpose and have a plan to pay it back. What most repos actually have is <strong>drift</strong> — the slow, invisible accumulatio

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<p>We've all been in that repo. The one where <code>npm install</code> prints 47 warnings, the README still references a <code>v1</code> API that was renamed two years ago, three tests are skipped "for now," and the last meaningful commit on <code>master</code> was a merge from a branch nobody remembers. You clone it, run it, and it kind of works — until it doesn't.</p> <p>We call this technical debt, but that framing is wrong. Debt implies you borrowed something on purpose and have a plan to pay it back. What most repos actually have is <strong>drift</strong> — the slow, invisible accumulatio

Результат

<p>We've all been in that repo. The one where <code>npm install</code> prints 47 warnings, the README still references a <code>v1</code> API that was renamed two years ago, three tests are skipped "for now," and the last meaningful commit on <code>master</code> was a merge from a branch nobody remembers. You clone it, run it, and it kind of works — until it doesn't.</p> <p>We call this technical debt, but that framing is wrong. Debt implies you borrowed something on purpose and have a plan to pay it back. What most repos actually have is <strong>drift</strong> — the slow, invisible accumulatio

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Technical debt is a maintenance problem, not a coding problem — here's how AI agents help

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