Skyline Anthem

We'll pay it back next quarter,

we'll pay it back in spring,

we took the shortcut once to ship a single thing,

and we wrote a TODO next to it,

we flagged it, we were good,

and the TODO is a landmark now,

it's practically a wood.

And every sprint we say we'll take a week,

and every sprint the roadmap says we can't,

and the interest compounds and the interest compounds

It's just tech debt It's just tech debt We're gonna get to

it We're gonna get to it It's just tech debt It's just

tech debt Nobody's ever gotten to it in the history of the

world

There's a class in here that's four thousand lines and growing,

it does auth and it does billing and there's logic in there

showing that a man in 2019 had a very bad month,

and we have all agreed to never speak of it at once.

And the new hires ask about it in their second week,

and we tell them it's on the roadmap,

and we watch them believe us,

and we remember believing too

It's just tech debt It's just tech debt We're gonna get to

it We're gonna get to it It's just tech debt It's just

tech debt Nobody's ever gotten to it in the history of the

world Here's what nobody tells you.

It's not that we can't pay it down.

It's that the company will be sold,

or pivot, or die before the interest ever comes due,

and everyone in this room knows the math,

and betting on that is the correct decision,

and it is also the reason nothing is ever good.

It's just tech debt It's just tech debt We're gonna get to

it We're gonna get to it

It's just tech debt It's just tech debt Nobody's ever gotten to

it in the history of the world

Next quarter.

Next

quarter.