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There are plenty of jokes around technical debt, but what happens when companies leave it to languish? I asked a bunch of developers to share some of their technical debt horror stories. Technical debt delays build times, introduces new bugs into badly written code, making testing more difficult for your QA team. It will also slow your overall production-test-release cycle and introduce new bugs, introducing new bugs to your code. It also affects profits, productivity and the company's overall business performance.