Technical debt is dead, the metaphor is broken

Hmmm.

My tomorrow understanding may be worst than that of today. Time passing is no guarantee for elevated intelligence.

Time to live for said solution is a practical factor that could and should settle the complexity issue of the solution, which may also turn into exploratory curiosity-enhanced over engineered solution.

Finally, all solutions have technical debts. Unavoidably sublime. We just choose to look the other way in most cases.

This popped up on a casual search:

https://medium.com/@antonellosemeraro/technical-debt-is-not-...

(paywalled, looks like a decent and recent writeup from what I can see of it, and the essence is above the fold).

Not sure why Ward Cunningham missed this, I expect in corporate finance (not stock trading) options trading (for profit, not hedging) isn't common.