You didn't ship fast — you borrowed against your future team's sanity
You didn’t ship fast. You borrowed against your future team’s sanity. The speed was real. You shipped in days what used to take a sprint. But the person who joins after you has to take ownership of a codebase they didn’t write, can’t fully read, and are now on the hook for. Every bug is an excavation. Every new feature starts with “wait, why does this work this way?” That’s not technical debt. That’s organisational debt — and it will land on someone else’s lap, maybe even your first real engineer hire. ...
