Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era

Fear used to run the place. Fear of breaking the build, of untangling a stranger’s 4-year-old regex, of that ticket labeled ‘Small Fix’ that turns into a six-month expedition into the Mines of Legacy. But fear is just interest on the loan. And the rate is now zero.

It's like evolution. You don't design the perfect organism. You slop out millions of mutations and let selection sort it out. Except now selection happens in milliseconds and the mutations are guided by something that's read every programming book ever written.