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a financial metaphor used to describe the long-term costs associated with taking on technical debt in a project
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The development team decided to prioritize paying off the technical debt before adding any new features to the software.
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We really need to clean up all the technical debt in our code before it becomes a big problem.
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Let's tackle that technical debt before it comes back to bite us.
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Ignoring technical debt is like letting a leaky faucet turn into a flooded basement.