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I think that's part of our responsibility as engineers to ensure that technical debt doesn't pile up. Business will want to focus on pushing new stuff and engineers have to be a counterbalancing force. It's literally your job.

This hasn't been a problem in the places I've worked. Perhaps I'm lucky or it's the fact that I don't live in a very hierarchical society (Sweden).

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You're correct that it's the engineers need to be responsible, starting with not offering lowball estimates for development and then taking shortcuts and ignoring problems just to get the features out the door. There are plenty of businesses perfectly happy with hiring developers that will ship things as fast as possible over developers that will take responsibility for the code.

I've worked both places. Unsurprisingly, I don't stay too long at places where I find myself working with a team full of shortcutters.

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