> I'm unconvinced that accepting large amounts of technical debt allows startups to react faster.
Accepting large amounts of technical debt enables you to deliver faster if your initial assumptions (both about what you want and how to achieve it) are correct, but slows you down if any of those turn out to be wrong.
OTOH, it might offset that slowness in whole or in part that by speeding up your ability to determine that they are wrong.
Accepting large amounts of technical debt enables you to deliver faster if your initial assumptions (both about what you want and how to achieve it) are correct, but slows you down if any of those turn out to be wrong.
OTOH, it might offset that slowness in whole or in part that by speeding up your ability to determine that they are wrong.