All Tech Debt Is Not Created Equal
InfoQ, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
At QCon London 2026, Joy Ebertz, principal engineer at Imprint, presented a practical framework for prioritizing technical debt, arguing that in an era where AI tools are accelerating code production, the question is no longer how to eliminate tech debt, but which debt actually matters.
Ebertz, who has previously held Staff+ roles at Harness, Split, and Box, opened by challenging the perfectionist mindset that all tech debt must be resolved. She argued that having a perfect codebase is meaningless if the company goes out of business, and that the real goal is to write the best software possible for the situation at hand.