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Technical Debt
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Lava Flow
Dead code that no one dares to remove because they don't understand it
Anti-Pattern
Big Ball of Mud
A system with no discernible architecture, where code is haphazardly structured, tangled, and duct-taped together, making every change risky and slow.
Anti-Pattern
Accidental Complexity
Complexity introduced by the solution rather than the problem — overbuilt tooling, layers, and abstractions that obscure logic that is actually simple.
Anti-Pattern
Boat Anchor
Keeping a piece of obsolete software, hardware, or a dependency that no longer serves a purpose but is retained and maintained out of inertia or sunk-cost thinking.
Anti-Pattern
Technical Debt Denial
Refusing to acknowledge or pay down accumulated technical debt, treating short-term delivery speed as if it carried no compounding cost.