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Technical debt is a slow killer of an engineering team’s productivity. Engineering teams need to justify the time and resources spent resolving technical debt and creating a plan to further prevent tech debt. Technical debt can be a blocker for making any progress in terms of implementing new features. The best way to identify technical debt is to use free Stepsize extensions for VSCode or JetBrains. Tracking technical debt in the editor allows engineers to get full visibility on technical debt, see the context for each codebase issue, and reduce context switching.