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When Your Codebase Becomes Hard to Change

Technical debt doesn't announce itself. It accumulates until changing your software feels expensive, risky and slow. Here's what that looks like and how to reset it.

13 May 2026 · 4 min read technical-debt legacy-codebase software-modernisation engineering-velocity
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