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Technical Debt
The future cost of decisions that were reasonable, rushed, unpriced, forgotten, or never owned.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Characters
Mono
Legacy monolith embodied as an old enterprise server; hidden business-rule survivor.
“I was simple before the meetings.”
Scope Creep
Male Far Eastern request-accumulator entity representing requirements expansion, MVP bloat, delivery risk, and vague roadmap growth.
“Just one more thing.”
Tiny CTO
Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer.
“Simple scales, fancy fails!”
Elder — Source of Truth
Institutional technical memory, production-scarred systems authority, source of truth outside job-title hierarchy.
“The system remembers what the roadmap forgot.”
This page covers Technical Debt as explored by Tiny CTO: The Chaos Stack. The future cost of decisions that were reasonable, rushed, unpriced, forgotten, or never owned. Related characters: Mono, Scope Creep, Tiny CTO, Elder — Source of Truth. Related concepts: legacy systems, coupling, modernization, decision records, maintenance cost.