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Properly Logging Technical Debt Is Actually About Attention, Responsibility, And Trust

It’s more than just code.

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Alex Ponomarev
Mar 05, 2025
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A wrench.

Good engineers tend to fix things right away when they notice something wrong in the code.

Imagine you have such an engineer on your team (hopefully, you have many!). When they find technical debt in pre-existing code, they rewrite everything they see and leave it in significantly better condition.

We should be able to stop there and call this a great thi…

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