To Kill Code

Economics is a great frame for understanding problems, but it can cloud many issues as well. The software development community has fought for years against the idea that IT should be viewed as a cost center. We’d like to see it as a value creating investment. Yet, as much as we’d like to see it that way, we speak about code as a liability. Experienced developers know that if we can deliver value with less code, we’re better off.

Much of the discussion around Technical Debt has this same iss...