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Every line of code you write is time debt

37Signals had many good ideas in their book Getting Real, but probably the best one is to “Build Less”.  Every line of code you write is time debt: it is another line that has to be debugged, another line that has to be supported, another line that may require a rewrite later, another line that might cause an interaction with a later feature, another line to write documentation for.

From Running a software business on 5 hours a week.