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The Anatomy of Technical Debt: When Business Decisions Sink the Code

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Bruno de Oliveira Magalhães
After 25 years of programming, an uncomfortable truth emerges: most of the technical debt haunting our projects doesn't stem from bad technical decisions. This image reveals, with surgical precision, the true origins of chaos in our code.

Unrealistic deadlines, urgent scope changes, lack of planning, and insufficient resources — the real villains hide in the upper floors, while developers drown in the consequences below.

A necessary reflection on shared responsibility, communication between worlds, and how our experience can help navigate (rather than collide with) these organizational icebergs.