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The risk is: Once you need to hire for it, you won’t be able to find top talent to do it.
It might be manageable for a day or two but very quickly you will suffer and probably give yourself food poisoning.
...continuing to cook meal after meal in the same kitchen, but never cleaning up, or washing a pot or pan. It might be manageable for a day or two but very quickly you will suffer and probably give yourself food poisoning.
So, you go back and dig out those gotchas, and try something else, it takes some time to understand what went wrong, and how to make it better without creating new and even hungrier gotchas. This process is called refactoring, and in the end it saves far more time and effort than it takes, but it requires concentration and time to do a good job, so please respect the closed office door, or other flag that I can't be interrupted right now when I'm refactoring.
...continuing to cook meal after meal in the same kitchen, but never cleaning up, or washing a pot or pan. It might be manageable for a day or two but very quickly you will suffer and probably give yourself food poisoning.
I speculate confusion about the term originally came from the word “debt”. For a layman it tends to be associated with an extremely narrow definition.
...continuing to cook meal after meal in the same kitchen, but never cleaning up, or washing a pot or pan. It might be manageable for a day or two but very quickly you will suffer and probably give yourself food poisoning.
Brilliant analogy! I speculate confusion about the term originally came from the word “debt”. For a layman it tends to be associated with an extremely narrow definition.