Technical Debt is Cheap

March 17th, 2025. My regular work was done for the day. I had three hours before I needed to stop. A friend had recommended Claude Code a few days earlier. &ldquo;Think of it like having a really junior developer on your team.&rdquo; I was skeptical. I&rsquo;d used Copilot for autocomplete, played with ChatGPT. Wasn&rsquo;t sold on Cursor. But I had this project. The one everyone has. Making money…