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The Debt Decision You're Making Whether You Think So or Not
5/3/2026
You're three weeks from a product milestone. The team is moving. Then someone opens a PR that's half feature, half workaround — patching around a data model that's been wrong for eight months. You merge it. You have to. The alternative is blowing the timeline. That's not a debt d…
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