Tech Debt? I don’t believe it exists.
A good approach to thinking about tech debt.
The thing you are trying to do, and three other things:
- Things causing problems now.
- Things that will be causing problems soon.
- Things that are not causing problems”.
Read the article for details on each!
Why LLMs Can’t Really Build Software - Zed Blog
LLMs can’t build software because they can’t build two mental models of the requirements and run an internal diff against their mental model of what the code currently does. In my experience coding agents often get stuck in a loop where they can’t decide if they need to fix the tests or the code, or the exciting third option of just deleting all the tests.