I went to UCLA 82-85. It was a vibrant area, but already too expensive for students to live around there. So every year, we moved a little further. Btw, Berkeley has no more major movie houses by the university. Between streaming and rent costs, the spaces around campus lost audience.

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In my painful experience, it first elongates or cancels enterprise sales cycles for a good while. A year later, clients may start to plan for the new reality, but for now prepare for pain.

Favorite song from many favorite national songs.

So technical, financial, and ethical considerations are all part of technical debt decisions.

Some debt is ok. Debt that future executives have to deal with? Not Ok. But you won't be penalized if you do -- thus the need for an ethical framework.

Ethics. Technical debt is kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with. As executives, we have the duty of stewardship. This means we should leave the institution or business better than it was, or do no damage

In the short term it's free money. In the long term,well ask America's bridges "how ya doing?"

This article quoting Forrester research makes the case. "AI rush is fueling tech debt ‘tsunami"
finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-rush...

It seems it's coming from postponing maintenance and upgrades of existing infrastructure and applications, commonly known as "Technical Debt".

Money allocated for bug fixes or modernization or server upgrades is re-allocated to AI.