If anyone ever asks whether technical debt has a concrete cost, here’s Prosper paying $3 million because they lost institutional knowledge of how a number was calculated (and it snowballed from there): https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2019/33-10630.pdf …
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They also got dinged by the SEC some years ago for selling securities unlawfully, and their strategy in response to this was to go Bond villain, which, while amusing, does not generally reduce the SEC’s desire to bring enforcement actions.
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For historical context, this was the issue which first caused me to start commenting on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377347
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I’m here just trying to figure out if you intended technical debt as a pun.
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