> Sometimes there's so much technical debt that it can never be paid off.

There is no such thing as technical debt in the age of AI. It's just a series of migrations that take minutes to come up with.

I migrated from two disparate databases using AI and it took minutes for it to write the migration code. I had it double-write the data, and then I told the AI to write code to compare between the two databases, and I then tested over the course of a week.. I fixed some small bugs, or more precisely I told the AI to fix the bugs and it did.

Then once I was satisfied, I switched it so that the new database was primary and the previous database was secondary. Then I tested to make sure the data was still in sync. Then I switched off the previous database, then I removed all traces of the previous code.

It was simple and relatively quick. The thought that there exists technical debt in this age is absurd. One person can do things an entire team used to take in a fraction of the time.