{"id":92965,"date":"2026-09-07T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92965"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:35:46","slug":"why-you-cant-resolve-technical-debt-by-starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92965","title":{"rendered":"Why you can&#8217;t resolve technical debt by starting over."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Sep\/6\/theres-no-limit-to-how-bad-code-can-get\/\">https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Sep\/6\/theres-no-limit-to-how-bad-code-can-get\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my career I can think of a few disastrous replacement attempts. It seems like it should work. It doesn&#8217;t. Willison has a good explainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Sep\/6\/theres-no-limit-to-how-bad-code-can-get\/ In my career I can think of a few disastrous replacement attempts. It seems like it should work. It doesn&#8217;t. Willison has a good explainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92966,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92965\/revisions\/92966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}