Talk:Technical debt

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The phrase "the architecture of a large software system is designed and developed too hastily" makes a (possibly unwarranted) value judgement about software management practices. Although I am in favor of clean code and good documentation (etc), I also recognize that there may be situations where they can and should be set aside (temporarily) for the purpose of releasing code. This is not inconsistent with the notion of debt; sometimes taking on debt is appropriate...