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The simulated dialog you have provided is very much representative of what many of us have heard first-hand. However, I disagree with:

  Most businesses don’t care about later risk or any future 
  planning beyond the quarter horizon, they’re not concerned 
  about how it will effect their performance in 3 quarters or 
  lead to instability or issues, those are future problems 
  for a future person and we’re here for money now.
Businesses care about "later risk" and what it implies.

Individuals within an organization do not unless it will specifically affect their bonuses/promotions.



It is also true developers can have a myopic view of what should be valued and that can be incongruent with the business.

You can make a perfectly rational business choice to take on tech debt to get a feature sooner.


IMO this is exactly how software business operates in practice.

Immaculate codebases we can effortlessly extended are a fairy tale of consultants. The world runs on tech debt that doesn’t matter enough to fix.




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