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Technical debt

2 essays tagged “Technical debt”.

01.05 2026
№ 61

Compliance AI Act PLD Technical Debt Philosophy OF Technology

The Specification Debt

On why the document that certifies the system ages worse than the code that implements it, and why the next generation of civil software-liability cases will be fought over the specification.

19′ reading time

4.420 words

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19.04 2026
№ 57

Software Development Software Philosophy OF Technology Technical Debt

Cruft, Not Patina

Buildings learn, Stewart Brand argued. Software, instead, accumulates comments that apologize. On why digital objects can't grow old — and what that says about the civilization that has put them at its center.

23′ reading time

5.180 words

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