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- Some technical debt, such as inadequate data structures or sloppy code, is highly visible and causes bugs, performance issues, and feature difficulties.
- Another insidious technical debt involves slow test suites, untrusted deployment scripts, rigid abstractions, or rigid unit tests that subtly discourage improvements and innovations.
- These friction-causing issues often go unaddressed because they seem minor, yet reducing friction is crucial as it can determine a project's success or failure.
- The author urges to fix technical debt proactively, as if no one is watching, since its impact can be transformative.