<![CDATA[The “maintenance cost nobody budgets for” is the ongoing cognitive load of keeping a system coherent.]]>The “maintenance cost nobody budgets for” is the ongoing cognitive load of keeping a system coherent. You can patch the code and replace the hardware, but nobody plans for the sheer mental overhead required to understand what the hell you actually built.

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