Epistemic Debt: The Code You Own but Cannot Explain
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There is a kind of debt that never appears in the codebase. It is the distance between the code you own and the code you understand, and it stays completely invisible while everything is working. It reports itself for the first time on the day something has to be fixed, which is the worst possible…
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Epistemic Debt: The Code You Own but Cannot Explain
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