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I love this analogy, interest rates on tech debt. It's such a natural extension of the phrase tech debt and succinctly gets a point across. I'm gonna have to steal that and start using it at work.

>>Bognar+(OP)
> It's such a natural extension of the phrase tech debt and succinctly gets a point across.

The metaphor of interest was the whole reason that Ward Cunningham initially coined the term "tech debt":

"Technical Debt is a metaphor, coined by Ward Cunningham, that frames how to think about dealing with this cruft, thinking of it like a financial debt. The extra effort that it takes to add new features is the interest paid on the debt."

https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html