When parts of your problem domain changes and that code is no longer appropriate that isn’t debt…

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Jan 1, 2016

To avoid having code that’s no longer appropriate later you should write code that is generic.

7 Ways To Avoid Technical Debt

Ian McKellar

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When parts of your problem domain changes and that code is no longer appropriate that isn’t debt anymore. Technical debt may have existed in that code but since it’s no longer appropriate it’s more like debt that has been written off.