Technical debt is like fixed rate mortgage.
Mess is like adjustable rate mortgage.
You might be able to pay down the former, but you may go underwater if the latter goes way above what you imagined in your worst case scenarios.
Mess is like adjustable rate mortgage.
You might be able to pay down the former, but you may go underwater if the latter goes way above what you imagined in your worst case scenarios.
Of course, all of this is far afield of the point. I thought technical debt was a fairly simple concept--you borrow from the future for some present benefit; you do something today that you have to pay back tomorrow. Once you chase down the metaphor this far, it's no longer a useful metaphor. Your technical debt will not be subject to quantitative easing.