What Is Technical Debt?
Technical debt is the future cost of a shortcut taken now. The metaphor is precise about one thing most teams get wrong: debt is only a problem when you stop servicing the interest.
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January 20, 2026
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5 articles tagged “code quality”
Clear tag filterTechnical debt is the future cost of a shortcut taken now. The metaphor is precise about one thing most teams get wrong: debt is only a problem when you stop servicing the interest.
An honest comparison of AI and static-analysis code review tools — what each catches, what each misses, and when a human review is still the only thing that works.
Cyclomatic complexity counts the independent paths through a function. It is the most widely used code metric and the most widely misused - useful as a smoke alarm, useless as a target.
With a large share of new code now AI-generated, review is the bottleneck rather than authoring. What machines review well, what they review badly, and how to split the job without losing the part that mattered.
A code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper problem. The word 'usually' is the whole point, and it is the part that gets dropped when smells become lint rules.
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