https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yasirlatifHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:34:13 +0000The "intent debt" framing is the most underappreciated category here. Cognitive and technical debt are at least visible in the code. Intent debt is invisible — it only surfaces when someone makes a change that's locally reasonable but globally wrong because the original constraint no longer exists in any artifact. The hardest version of this is in enterprise systems where the constraint was a regulatory requirement that quietly changed three years ago, but nobody updated the code because the tests still passed. You can't recover intent from a test suite.

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