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A few years ago, while working on a project with a tight deadline. We had a small bug in the code, but it wasn’t critical, so I decided to take a shortcut to get things done faster. I knew it wasn’t the cleanest solution, but it worked well enough at the time. I told myself I’d come back and fix it later when I had more time. Weeks turned into months, and that “temporary” solution remained in the code. Eventually, as we added new features, things started to break in unexpected ways. Bugs multiplied, and each new issue became harder to fix because it was all tangled up with that original shortcut. What should have been a quick fix now took days to unravel. That’s when I truly understood the impact of technical debt. Just like borrowing money, cutting corners in coding might help you move faster in the short term, but if you don’t “pay it back” by cleaning up the code, it accumulates interest. Eventually, it costs you more time and effort to fix it than if you’d done it right from the start. ...