Technical Debt

The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly

When the new person on your team looks at an architectural tangle or a pile of technical debt, they have no historical context… They haven’t been around for the gradual change and the boiling frogs: they’re just seeing the raw situation as it is. Without preconceptions, they’re free to look around and ask, “What’s really happening here? Is any of this working?” ^[46]